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Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk

More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...

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?

The Plane Forest: Does the City have the Right Trees?

The City of London actively seeks to make the most...

Talking with Beasts: Human and animal languages

Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection?

Most of us rarely think about plant immunity. But, like...

Dyslexia and Language - Disorder or Difference?

Difficulties with reading and writing have wide-ranging effects beyond academic...

The Medieval Agricultural Revolution: New evidence

During the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’, new forms of cereal farming...

Microbial Master-Chemists

Microbial chemistry makes bread rise and cheese mature, and turns...

Microbial Megastructures

*Please note that due to industrial action this lecture was...

Making New Plants: A History

This lecture examines the work of Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist who was one of the first to claim that science would allow plants and animals to be designed to order.