Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided How closely are we related to each other, and how...
Is the growth in the emerging economies additional or are we growing more slowly? Speakers look at the limits to world economic growth from...
Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
A Lark Arising: The Rural Past and Urban Histories, 1881 - 2011 The Census of April 1881 revealed an England which was...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 At the end of the eighteenth century, the average British...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...