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The Shape of Plants: Why Plants Love Mathematics and Mathematicians Love Plants

Looking at the plant world, one discovers beautiful and fascinating...

Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection?

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

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...

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...

Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England

Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on...

The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History

The skeleton of Richard III was discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. Forensic techniques were used to analyse injuries to the skull, rib and pelvis.

This lecture will explore Napoleon‘s life through his interactions with the natural world and a series of gardens that were important to him during the rise and fall of his power. The point of doing this is to approach his life from oblique angles, exploring material that is often overlooked.

Spying for Queen and Country

Spying for Queen Elizabeth I was very different from modern-day intelligence services - or was it? This lecture brings together historian Stephen Alford and Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, and will discuss Tudor spies and the modern-day secret service.

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