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First as Farce, then as Tragedy: Waterloo in British Song
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The First Bible Printed in England: A Little Known Witness from Late Henrician England
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-10-03)The first Bible to be printed in England was produced in by the royal printer, and with Henry VIII’s initial support. It has attracted little scholarly attention. This first extensive examination traces its creation ... -
Flower, Roderick: transcript of a video interview (14-Apr-2016)
(30/08/2016)Interview with Professor Roderick Flower, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 14 April 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by ... -
Flower, Roderick: transcript of an audio interview (14-Apr-2016)
(30/08/2016)Interview with Professor Roderick Flower, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 16 April 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by ... -
Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)In 1967–68 Britain experienced the worst foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic of the twentieth century. Attributed to pig swill containing infected Argentine lamb, 2,228 outbreaks were recorded during a nine-month period, ... -
Forensic Shakespeare
(Oxford University Press, 2014-10-01)Shakespeare's knowledge opf classical rhewtoric and its impact on his'forensic' plays (especially Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello) -
Frackowiak, Richard: transcript of a video interview (06- and 07-Dec-2007)
(26/06/2017)Richard Frackowiak founded the influential Wellcome Department of Imaging Neurosciences’ Functional Imaging Laboratory at the Institute of Neurology in 1994. A clinician by training he has investigated the physiology of ... -
Framing the Refugee Experience: Reflections on German-speaking Jews in British India, 1938–1947
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Frith, Uta: transcript of a video interview (27- and 28-Nov-2007)
(26/06/2017)Uta Frith is a world expert in autism spectrum disorders. She was one of the first in the 1960’s to assess the alterations in brain function that underlie autism, at a time when the general view was that autism was an ... -
From resistance to revolution: the limits of nonviolence in Arendt’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
Arendt’s work on civil disobedience sets out an optimistic portrayal of the possibilities of such forms of action in re-energising the spirit of American politics in the late twentieth century. Civil disobedience should ... -
Genetic Testing
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)Remarkable strides were made in the twentieth century in understanding the basis of heredity and in deciphering how the genes, the units of heredity, function. Chaired by Professor Marcus Pembrey, and attended by a group ... -
Genetics & Health
(2017-06-01)The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group originated in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, which in October 2000 became a part of the Wellcome Trust’s Centre for the History ... -
Glasnost in the Streets
(Skira, 2022-10-27)