May 2015 archive

Wunderkammer reading group – summer term programme

The Wunderkammer reading group meets on alternate Tuesdays at 17:30 in the rear room of the Unicorn Pub on St Dunstans. The programme for the summer term is as follows:   19 May 2015 (Week 26) – 20th-century British Science (led by Oliver Hill-Andrews, Sussex) Oliver Hill-Andrews, “Introduction: Science in British Culture, 1900-1945” (from thesis, soon …

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H.G. Wells Lecture by Patricia Fara now available to view

In March Patricia Fara from the University of Cambridge delivered the Centre for the History of the Sciences’ annual H.G. Wells Science and Society Lecture. She spoke on ‘Fighting for the Vote: Science and Suffrage in World War I’. You can now see her excellent lecture on YouTube, or by clicking below.