Might as well toss a coin: How random numbers help us find exact solutions Randomness is clearly important in computer games and in the...
‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the ‘Buildings of …' Series This lecture traces the history of this famous series by...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
How Inequality Affects Mental Health Traditional risk factors for mental illness include genetics, perinatal factors...
Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist? Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Making Sense of Conspiracy Theories With Brexit, the US presidential election and the Covid pandemic...
The New Art of Central Banking Following the Long Expansion and the global financial crisis, money...