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The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...

Hardy, Littlewood, Cartwright and Ramanujan

The collaboration between G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and J.E. Littlewood (1885-1977)...

Free Speech and the Study of History

A growing number of countries have so-called memory laws, ranging...

Möbius and his Band

Many people have heard of the Möbius band, a one-sided...

Topics in the History of Financial Mathematics: The Influence of Amatino Manucci and Luca Pacioli

This is the first part of a study day. It...

Coming to Terms with Modern Times: English architecture in the post-war era

The Second World War intensified and magnified debates that had...

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

The Victorians: Life and Death

The nineteenth century, above all in Europe, was the age...

Why do we hate? Why do we help? Asylum seekers and ambivalence in contemporary Britain

Psychoanalytic theory illuminates the polarised nature of the asylum debate...

The American Way of War in History and Politics

FULBRIGHT LECTURE The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have...