The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on On 1 November 1755, Lisbon was devastated by a massive...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson discusses the history of science and its importance...
Now the dust has settled: A view of Robert Hooke post-2003 The tercentenary in 2003 of Hooke's death saw a flurry...