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Andrea Wulf @ Royal Society
A capacity crowd gathered to hear Andrea Wulf talk about her latest book, Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens, at the Royal Society library on Friday 4th May 2012. The podcast of Andrea Wulf’s lecture, which I highly recommend, will soon be available here. A transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus […]
Jerry White @ Guildhall
April 26, 2012
Jerry White, author and Professor of History at Birkbeck College, spoke at Guildhall Library on Tuesday 24th April 2012 about his latest book, London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing. This book is the eagerly awaited third in a trilogy that began with London in the Twentieth Century, followed by London in the Nineteenth Century. White’s […]
History of science mini-marathon
April 26, 2012
Coming to London for the 2012 Olympics? Keen to see more than back-to-back sporting events? Grab your camera and walking shoes, and check out these history of science hot spots, all within a short distance of Piccadilly Circus. If you’re really keen, you can get this mini-marathon done in a single day. Be sure to […]
Petty crims & proselytisers: Tyburn Tree, Marble Arch & Speaker’s Corner
April 14, 2011
If you can dodge the heavy traffic and make it to the traffic island at the corner of Edgeware and Bayswater Roads near Marble Arch, you will discover an unassuming concrete memorial – the Tyburn Tree plaque. This was the location of the ancient village Tyburn, but is more notorious as the site of a major public execution gallows […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
May 10, 2012
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