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Dr Anna Marie Roos gives a talk as part of the Museum's celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society.
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The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivaled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Bro...

Dr Anna Marie Roos gives a talk as part of the Museum's celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Royal Society.

Professor Allen of the Oxford University Environmental Change Institute discusses one of the most pressing issues of the modern day - Climat...

Russell Foster explains the role of light in regulating our bodies and discusses the implications of today's almost constant exposure to lig...

Writer Richard Hamblyn revisits his first book about the 19th-century amateur meteorologist Luke Howard who gave the clouds the names we use...

Leigh Fletcher (Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford) talks about current research on the weather of ot...

Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution.

Geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane talks about the inspirations behind his book on Gerard Mercator.

The third in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum's 'Eccentricity' exhibition.

Dr Vicky Carroll talks about the eccentric tendencies of early 19th-century natural historians. Whether hunting for fossils or wrestling all...

In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in particular the hunt for Sasqua...

A public lecture by Dr. Silke Ackermann, Curator of European and Islamic scientific instruments at the British Museum. Part of the Al-Mizan...

A public lecture by Professor Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA, Emeritus Professor of the History of Islamic Science, University of Oxford. Part of...

Professor Peter Scott discusses his research into competitive advantage and innovation in the interwar British radio industry using the Marc...

Professor Peter Scott (University of Reading) presents the inaugural Douglas Byrne Marconi Lecture based on his research on Marconi and radi...

In the fourth and final lecture in the 'Telescopes Now' series, Professor Alan Watson talks about his work at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Ob...

In the third in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in telescopes, Professor Roger Davies talks about his w...

In the second in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in the telescope, Professor Phil Diamond talks about h...

In the first in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in telescopes, Professor Alexander Boksenberg talks abo...