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...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 BOOK LAUNCH At the end of the eighteenth century, the...
Sir Christopher Wren: Buildings, Place and Genius Who makes great buildings patrons, architects and builders? Are successful...
Sir Hans Sloane: 350 years of preserving history An overview of the history of botanical collecting: the characters...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...