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Royal Society founded 1660 Gresham College and Arundel House
Royal Society for advancement of Science, a founding father Christopher Wren, Astronomer at Gresham College…? Was your relative a member or fellow of the society?
Read MoreJane Austen Centre in Bath
Family members of Jane Austen…and why not a visit to the Regency Architecture of Bath and a visit to the Jane Austen Centre as well?
Read MoreJane Austen’s House and Museum at Chawton Hants
It was Chawton where Jane spent the last 8 years of her life in the grace and favour small house provided by the generosity of her brother Edward Austen. Now the location of the Jane Austen House Museum
Read MoreJane Austen was born 1775 Steventon Hants
Jane Austen possibly the greatest female writer of all time and one of the top 5 of both men and women, well thats what the distinguished critic F R Leavis believed…
Read MoreNewton states laws of motion and gravity in Principia Mathematica 1686-1687
Newtorn’s major work impacts on thinking of the Enlightenment’s philosophers and social reform…the world is not the centre of the universe!
Read MoreBill of Rights 1688 – 1 of 4 great historic documents…
Bill of Rights 1688. When King William III and Queen Mary II were offered the crown, it was accompanied by a Declaration that became the Bill of Rights. Link to the document itself.
Read MoreDescartes Discourse on the Method 1637
The pursuit of incontrovertible truth…by Descartes
Read MorePhrenology- a Victorian obsession?
In 1824, George Combe’s ‘Elements of Phrenology’ was published. Phrenology was the identification of an individual’s faculties by feeling the shape of the skull. It was argued by Franz Joseph Gall, an Austrian physician, along with Johann Spurzheim that mind and brain were connected, in a way that, different characteristics of mind, would give different…
Read MoreRené Descartes the father of modern philosophy
Descartes kicks -off the perod of Enlightenment and the ae of reason…
Read MoreDurham Mining Maps
Many of us have miners in our family trees but with so many mining areas closing down it is not always easy to find out exactly where the mines were. A project called Miner Mapping, undertaken in Durham has listed place names in County Durham and by clicking on a place name you can search…
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