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Illuminated Psalter Manuscripts

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts...

Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs!

Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...

The Institutionalisation of the Arts in Early Victorian England

The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...

Hitler's Victories, 1939-41

The second lecture in this series describes the astonishing and...

Early Mathematics Day: Exploring Ancient Greek and Roman Numeracy

An examination of the role of numeracy within ancient civilisations...

More complex than Graunt could imagine: Theoretical and practical thoughts about tempo effects in the conventional period life table

Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914

It was during these years that British statesmen first came...

Sorting out Transport in London

London has some major disadvantages that would make any transport...

Turing and von Neumann

Alan Turing (1912-1954) and John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an...

The Mathematical Life of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing and a...