The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
Arithmetic by Computer and by Human Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...
The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...
The Hidden Face of British Gardening Gardening has been big business since the 17th century, but how can we measure its growth and economic importance?
Early Mathematics Day: Solving the mystery of the World's First Computer In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course...
Indra’s Pearls: Geometry and Symmetry An explanation of the first computer exploration of Felix Klein's vision of fractals in the 1980s, and what mathematics has gained by it.
Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy In the 1990s, the advanced economics appeared no longer self-sufficient...