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Trading Identities: The image of the merchant

What was a merchant in 16th Century Europe, and what...

Making Art in Tudor Britain

An exploration of the environment in which art was produced...

'There's nowt so queer as folk' - Gender and sexuality

Sex and religion. Why celibacy? Is homosexuality objectively disordered? Are...

Health on the ocean waves: The sea-doctor afloat and in port

A lecture by Professor Allan Chapman, University of Oxford

Addicted to love, beauty or sex?

On Valentine's Day it is appropriate to consider whether humans...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - A well-scrubbed world

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

Sexual conflict and the emergence of sexual equality and monogamy

In many species that have adopted promiscuous reproductive strategies, competition...

Girls into Science: Problems faced by Women in Science

As a girl, Professor Susan Greenfield saw the sciences as...

Sir Thomas Gresham and The New Learning

The subjects chosen by Sir Thomas Gresham for his Professors...