The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
Early Mathematics Day: The MacPlatonic Solids: Mathematics in Neolithic Scotland What is the mathematical significance of certain prehistoric objects that...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Might as well toss a coin: How random numbers help us find exact solutions Randomness is clearly important in computer games and in the...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...
London - The Forgotten Hanseatic City: The Hanseatic League The first part of the symposium included the following talks...
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist? Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...