Greenness and UK Environmental Challenges The world faces environmental challenges from global to local levels...
Choosing a Past for the Future: Why today's environment policy is also history (but doesn't know it) It is hard to imagine an area of policy more...
Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided How closely are we related to each other, and how...
Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Emerging Markets and Climate Change This lecture considers the economic impact of climate change on...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 BOOK LAUNCH At the end of the eighteenth century, the...
Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?' Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...