2022 | Page 7 of 7 | Professor Joe Cain

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. […]

ProfJoeCain answers question from UCL Talking Heads: If you could travel in a time machine where would you go and why?

If You Could Travel By Time Machine, Where Would You Go and Why?

UCL Talking Heads asked me to answer some questions about student life and teaching at the university. In this film, I answer the question, “if you could travel by time machine where would you go and why?” […]

ProfJoeCain answers question from UCL Talking Heads: What are your top tips for Induction Week?

What Are Your Top Tips For Induction Week Starting University?

UCL Talking Heads ask me to answer some questions about student life and teaching at the university. In this film, I answer the question, “What are your top tips for induction week?” “Induction week” or […]

Lionel Penrose 1934 Influence of Heredity on Disease

Reception of Lionel Penrose’s Study on “Mental Deficiency” in 1930s Britain

This essay examines the reception by the medical and eugenic communities of Lionel Penrose’s research on “mental deficiency” in the 1930s. In 1928 Lionel Penrose began work at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution in Colchester, […]