The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries This lecture will introduce this series about early missionary projects in the 16th-18th centuries. Why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.
Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI The First World War was the first time that war...
Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...
How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...
Pathogens and parasites; plagues and pandemics The earliest gains in life expectancy were made by understanding...