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...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Maeterlinck's Golaud As title roles of both Maurice Maeterlinck’s play and Claude...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Whither to the Creeping Paralysis? Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose...
The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was...
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...