Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs! Joint lectures with the British Society for the History of...
Heading for Trouble: The perils of navigation This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of...
Ancient Greek Ideas of Equality under the Law The Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has posed the question...
Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...