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January 2019
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 »February 2019
Dr. D’s Science Club
The Future of Materials Make a crash helmet for an egg and discover how materials might change and develop in the future. Children aged 7-11 Ticket reductions for siblings. Children are fully supervised, but adults may attend with their children if they wish.
Find out more »Staffordshire and West Midlands Accents and Dialects
By Dr Tom Devlin, Huddersfield University.
Find out more »March 2019
Dr. D’s Science Club
National Science Week: Meet the Scientists Join us for our annual celebration of National Science Week with free drop-in activities. Children aged 7-11 Children are fully supervised, but adults may attend with their children if they wish.
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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