Twenty-first Century Threats: Malaria In 1955, the World Health Organization announced an ambitious plan...
The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...
Twenty-first Century Threats: Tuberculosis This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century...
Early Mathematics Day: The Archimedes Codex A lecture on the Archimedes Palimpsest, delivered by Professor Reviel...
Early Mathematics Day: Exploring Ancient Greek and Roman Numeracy An examination of the role of numeracy within ancient civilisations...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
In the beginning: the Roman, the Viking and the Norman Conquests As an island people, the inhabitants of Britain were repeatedly...
Would it be Right to Make Vaccination Mandatory? Vaccination against disease has saved countless lives, yet it remains...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...