Find out more about how The Lecture List works.
Coronavirus situation updateOur lecture organisers may or may not have had time to update their events with cancellation notices. Clearly social gatherings are to be avoided and that includes lectures. STAY AT HOME FOLKS, PLEASE. |
Find out what you can do to keep The Lecture List online
 |
|
currently browsing: /science/history
|
|
Tue 2 Jun 15 · Mendel's legacy (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 9 Apr 15 · Science on myself (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 25 Sep 14 · Longitude: back and forth across the years (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Mon 14 Apr 14 · Voltaire Lecture - Lessons from the past: science and rationalism in medieval Islam (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 22 Oct 13 · Lunchtime Lecture: Surgeons at Sea: The Naval surgeon and health of the seaman in the age of Nelson (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 29 May 13 · Falling upwards (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Thu 11 Apr 13 · Snow’s Legacy: Epidemiology Today and Tomorrow (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London)
Fri 19 Oct 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: human error and biodiversity (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)
Wed 14 Mar 12 · From Maxwell To Higgs (Public Engagement, King's College London, London)
Fri 4 Nov 11 · Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Why? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Fri 6 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)
Sun 13 Feb 11 · Darwin's Sacred Cause (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 9 Jan 11 · Alfred Russel Wallace: conservation or sustainable development? (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 19 Nov 10 · The unfortunate chemist - tribulations of chemical philosophy in an age of revolution (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 19 Oct 10 · An Unsung Hero? Joseph Naples, Resurrectionist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 14 Jul 10 · Blooming Snapdragons (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sun 27 Jun 10 · Darwinian Myths: Science and Religion 150 years On (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 13 Jun 10 · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Nobel Prizes: The Discovery Of C60, the Third Form of Carbon (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 11 May 10 · Wren, Hooke and Willis: Divine Geometry and Natural Design (The Museum of London, London)
Fri 30 Apr 10 · Vis lucis, vis luminis: how optics shaped physics (The Royal Institution, London)
Fri 26 Mar 10 · The Great ideas of biology (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 4 Mar 10 · Keith Joseph: Ideologist of Thatcherism (Leo Baeck Institute London, London)
Tue 2 Mar 10 · Believing in the Da Vinci Code: Social-Cognitive Predictors and Correlates (Psychology Seminar Series, Goldsmiths' College, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now (St Mary le Bow Church, London)
Thu 12 Nov 09 · CP Snow’s ‘Two cultures’: 50 years of debate (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 29 Oct 09 · Darwin, FitzRoy and the voyage of the Beagle: the untold story (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 19 Oct 09 · Cafe Scientifique: The selfish genius (The Royal Institution, London)
Thu 15 Oct 09 · From ancient Greeks to gravitational waves – a cornucopia of science (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 21 Sep 09 · Café Scientifique: Quantum mechanics (The Royal Institution, London)
Tue 28 Jul 09 · Decoding the heavens (The Royal Institution, London)
Wed 13 May 09 · Grimoires and the occult arts (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 20 Apr 09 · The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 14 Apr 09 · 9/11: Time for a Second Look by Prof. David Ray Griffin (City University, London)
Mon 12 Jan 09 · Glorious rival to Greenwich (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Mon 24 Nov 08 · Lost in History - Adriano Shaplin in conversation with Simon Schaffer (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 7 Oct 08 · What on earth happened? (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 10 Jun 08 · Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble: a brief history of the most famous telescope in history (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Thu 29 Nov 07 · Francis Bacon's Magical Reformation and The New Atlantis (Treadwell's Books, London)
Thu 29 Nov 07 · Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (The Dana Centre, London)
Fri 21 Sep 07 · The Worst Journey in the World (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 18 Sep 07 · Holiday Snaps From the Challenger Expedition (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Sat 2 Jun 07 · Audubon’s Birds of America: Accuracy vs. Aesthetics? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Mon 26 Feb 07 · The Egyptian Book of the Dead (New Acropolis, London)
Sat 2 Dec 06 · Tough Enough to Stuff? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Fri 1 Dec 06 · Freaks of Nature (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Wed 15 Nov 06 · William Shockley: Creator of the Electronic Age (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Thu 9 Nov 06 · Spices of the World (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 24 Oct 06 · Francis Crick's Place in History (Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Thu 15 Jun 06 · From bad to worse: the worst ideas on the mind (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)
Thu 27 Apr 06 · Who's the greatest? Minds that changed our minds (Franklin-Wilkins Building, KCL, London)
Wed 22 Feb 06 · Distilled lives: anatomy museums in Georgian London (Royal College of Surgeons of England, London)
Wed 30 Nov 05 · The Surgeon and the Warrior: how Archibald McIndoe transformed the Royal Air Force and the Air Minis (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 9 Nov 05 · Sir Harold Gillies, Faces of the Great War and Project Facade:historical and artistic perspectives (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 26 Oct 05 · Medicine and Surgery in the Crimea (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 6 Oct 05 · Surgery in Nelson's Navy: the death of an Admiral (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 28 Sep 05 · Breasts Laid Bare (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 27 Jan 05 · Lies, Damn Lies, and Science? (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 27 Jan 05 · Einstein’s legacy as a scientist and icon (The Royal Society, London)
Wed 8 Dec 04 · Plague (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 14 Oct 04 · The Big Bang (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Sat 11 Sep 04 · Moa: A Short History of the World’s Tallest Birds (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sat 11 Sep 04 · Moa: A Short History of the World’s Tallest Birds (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 9 Sep 04 · Richard Owen: Aggressive Adversary? (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 8 Sep 04 · Richard Owen's Contribution to Evolutionary Theory (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 15 Jun 04 · Medawar Prize Lecture: The Truth About Science (The Royal Society, London)
Fri 11 Jun 04 · Venus Unveiled (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 9 Jun 04 · Venus Unveiled (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 8 Jun 04 · The Transit of Venus (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Mon 7 Jun 04 · The Transit of Venus (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
©2003-2006 Niminim Limited. Created by 
Any ad revenue is entirely reinvested into the Lecture List's operating fund
