Four of most eminent scholars in archaeology, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Henrietta Moore, Professor Meg Conkey from University...

Collection: Personal-Histories Project

Institution: Department of Archaeology

Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010

Talk given on 19 March 2011 as part of Cambridge Science Festival. Fred Hoyle was one of the twentieth century's most creative and controversial scientists. A collection of his...

Collection: St John's College Library

Institution: Cambridge University Library

Created: Thu 10 Mar 2011

Talk given by Prof. David Livingstone as part of a short course held in Ireland

Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures

Institution: Faraday Institute

Created: Thu 14 May 2020

Dr Richard Staley (History and Philosophy of Science) describes the social, cultural, and political contexts in which Einstein developed and promulgated his theory of General...

Collection: Sidney Greats Lectures (4) Michaelmas 2013

Institution: Sidney Sussex College

Created: Sat 21 Dec 2013

Simon Schaffer (HPS) & Sujit Sivasundaram (History) introduce the conference 'Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science'.

Collection: CRASSH

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 30 Apr 2013

Every schoolchild knows that water is H2O, but it was a terribly difficult thing for scientists to learn originally.

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Wed 19 Nov 2014

Henslow is remembered for recommending Darwin to the Beagle expedition but his research is less well known – the nature of species through understanding natural variation.

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Wed 15 Oct 2014

Malcolm Longair is Emeritus Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Emeritus Professorial Fellow and former Head of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Tue 25 Nov 2014

'Of Monsters and Mangled Tongues - Tales from Early Modern English Medical Advertising, 1660-1720'

Season 1 Episode 6 of Cambridge PhDcasts with PhDcaster Michelle Wallis.

Collection: Cambridge PhDcasts

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 30 May 2013

Panel discussion with

Tim Boon (Chief Curator, Science Museum, London),

John Lynch (CEO of TV production company Words Make Pictures Ltd, former Head of Science at BBC...

Collection: Public and Popular History

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013

Darwin’s displacement of intelligent design
Professor Robert J Richards (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Summary: Darwin constructed his theory utilizing some...

Collection: Darwin Festival 2009

Institution: Department of Biological Anthropology

Created: Thu 15 Oct 2009

An interview with Simon Schaffer, the historian of science, on his life and work. Interviewed and filmed by Alan Macfarlane on 27 June 2008, edited by Sarah Harrison,...

Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011

Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, gave the seventh lecture in this series on Thursday 1 May 2014 at 5.30pm in the Lee Hall.

Collection: Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Mon 11 Aug 2014

New research at the University of Cambridge has lifted the lid on an unusual Spanish globe. Until now, the globe in the University of Cambridge's Whipple Museum of the History of...

Collection: Research Horizons

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Wed 13 Mar 2013

Dr Andrew Cunningham discusses the iconic image of dissection used as the frontispiece to the 'De humani corporis fabrica libri septem', by the ground-breaking anatomist Andreas...

Collection: Vivitur Ingenio: Andreas Vesalius

Institution: Cambridge University Library

Created: Tue 1 Jul 2014