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Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa

Literature has always played a key role in social and...

Are human beings still evolving?

Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely...

Big Data in the UK Biobank: Opportunities and Challenges

The UK Biobank allows scientists to access a vault of...

Our Changing Bodies: The lessons of anthropometric history

What can the study of height, health and welfare teach...

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700

At the end of the eighteenth century, the average British...

Sickle Cell Disease: A Cultural History

Please note this lecture was rescheduled from its original date...

Assessing the Three New Science & Society Commissions

Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...

Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided

How closely are we related to each other, and how...

A is for Autism

Half a million people in the UK are on the...