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Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist?

Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...

Britain Needs an Ivy League

Professor Kealey argues the case for world-class universities being established...

An Introduction to Rare and Endangered Languages

Professor Tim Connell provides an introduction to the field, with...

The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology - Implications for Ethics, Teleology and 'Natural Theology'

THE ANNUAL BOYLE LECTURE The Boyle lectures address topics which...

What is this thing called “love”?

How hormones, phermones and bonding chemicals connect with the experiences...

British Coronations: A History

Why do we crown Kings and Queens? And why has...

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...

Enemies at home: from class war to the war on crime

Hostility and demonisation in party political rhetoric in Britain. The...

A simple solution to global imbalance that is easy to implement and is unlikely to make matters worse

The History of Local Anaesthesia

A humorous spin on a fascinating story of the history of anaesthesia: from 1847 and general anaesthesia, fuelled by ether and cocaine, through to today's highly-developed science.