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The Hidden Face of British Gardening

Gardening has been big business since the 17th century, but how can we measure its growth and economic importance?

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.

Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars

Extant manuscripts, early library catalogues, lists of loans and wills...

Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation

Many societal goals for markets can be achieved with more...

Cosmology of Ultimate Concern

The Ethics of Reproduction

From cloning and embryo research, to multiple births and the...

International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good, or maybe not?

In the last twenty years several international courts have been...

Calisto a le stelle: Cavalli and the Staging of Venetian Opera - Part One

This first part of this study day included the following...

Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich

An exploration of how so many Christians came to support Nazism, and how some managed to oppose it: from the dejudaised Christianity of the ‘German Christian’ movement, to illicit collaboration of the supposedly anti-Nazi 'Confessing Church'.

The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...