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Devilry and doom in 1666
Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
Catalogue
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Victorian values : a joint symposium of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy December 1990 / edited by T.C. Smout.
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
A century of British orientalists, 1902-2001 / C. Edmund Bosworth.
Bosworth, Clifford Edmund.Date: 2001- Books
Prospering wisely : how the humanities and social sciences enrich our lives / The British Academy ; [introduction by Lord Stern of Brentford].
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
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(The) British Academy
Date: 2002Reference: SB/4/1/56Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Honorary Fellow, The British Academy
Date: 1976Reference: PP/PAG/A/2/14/17Part of: Walter Pagel (1898-1983), pathologist and medical historian