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Dinner in the Iguanodon Model, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

“150,000,000 B.C.” is a rare pamphlet about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and other statues by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created in the 1850s in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham. It was published [...]

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Broadcast Clock Generator App

I needed a quick and easy broadcast clock for creating podcast episodes. (There is a great episode of ‘99% Invisible’ on broadcast clocks that is well worth listening to.) While [...]

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Medical Cards for Croydon Schoolchildren 1920s-1930s

Historians must make more – and more creative – use of AI technologies for data analysis as well as for routine task of data sorting and transcription. To create a [...]

HPSC0010 History of Modern Science

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HPSC0009 Introduction to History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

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Undergraduates in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) undertake final year projects resulting in dissertations or research reports. Students undertake a research project largely of their own design in the field of science […]

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Regular Contact with Anyone Interested: Documents of Society for the Study of Speciation | EGP

Organising the Society for the Study of Speciation was a simple affair in 1939. The job of implementing its vision fell upon the entomologist Alfred Emerson, recruited to serve as Secretary. ‘The need was felt by […]

Second Brown Dog Statue, Battersea Park, London, UK. Joe Cain

Brown Dog Statue in Battersea Park London | EGP

Protests were sure to follow the unveiling of the brown dog statue in Battersea, London, in 1906 in Latchmere Recreation Ground. The little terrier had become the focus of an anti-vivisection campaign directed against Professor William Bayliss […]

Cumberland Clark. 1929. Shakespeare and Science. ISBN 978-1-906267-39-1.

Shakespeare and Science: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and More from the Bard | EGP

Cumberland Clarke’s Shakespeare and Science is a monumental compilation of the William Shakespeare’s many references to natural and celestial phenomena, including a careful study of the Bard’s interest in, and dramatic use of, natural phenomena. […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Exploring the Borderlands of Evolutionary Synthesis

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 2 | EGP

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Top Questions About New Year’s Eve Dinner in Iguanodon at Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

LLMs and GenAI in Research

Broadcast Clock Generator App

Medical Cards for Croydon Schoolchildren 1920s-1930s

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