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The Architect’s Wife: Mary Pickford (1737-1812)
Dr Peter Collinge (Keele University) will explore Mary Pickford’s pioneering role in the textile industry, and how her political and philanthropic activities contributed to Derby’s urban development in the late-eighteenth century.
Find out more »Evolution and the Epic Imagination: from Erasmus Darwin to the ‘Hobbit’.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Erasmus Darwin reached for ancient myths and the poetry of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to help him imagine what evolution might be like in action. In this talk, John Holmes will explore how our understanding of evolution has been shaped by epic literature and myth and still is, from Darwin’s poem The Temple of Nature to his grandson’s Tree of Life and on to modern science, where the Earth has become Gaia and our ancestors shared the world with…
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Find out more »Beyond Brontosaurus: Dinosaurs, Science and Fiction
Brontosaurus was discovered in the 1860's and declared invalid in 1903, but managed a comprehensive domination of twentieth-century, despite never having had existed. In 2015 it was (tentatively) restored to the annals of science. In this talk Will Tattersdill explores the animal's strange afterlife in science and popular culture. Will Tattersdill Senior Lecturer in Popular Literature Birmingham University
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