Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions
“The Country of the Iguanodon” is Gideon Mantell’s attempt to imagine the paleoecology of dinosaurs. Transcripts of 1838 and 1851 descriptions.
Year: 2025
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum
Gideon Mantell’s 1851 guide to fossils at British Museum, including Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, marine reptiles, and more.
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Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM
I provide data for an LLM-based analysis of the short-lived Society for the Study of Speciation (SSS), organised by Alfred Emerson, through three documents.
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Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress
What work can large-language models (LLMs) do for historical researching? They offer tools for voluminous compilation of data ready for complex human analysis. They can organise and reorganise data. They can extract data from source material. They can be set to search for trends. We’re coming to grips with LLM tools for historical researching, and we’re quickly moving well beyond the LLM-as-author model so distrusted in our community. Historians must push ourselves to be as creative and demanding of LLM resources as those in our sister disciplines.
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Monopoly 1961 ‘Rules for a Short Game’ Instruction Card (60-90m)
Sorting through the loft, I came across parts to some old Monopoly games. This games seems to have been around forever, and I have had several versions – and fragments of other versions – in […]
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Student Recording of Teaching Sessions and Presentations
ProfJoeCain’s policy on recording teaching sessions and presentations.
WeAreSTS Episode Library
#210 Esports, Management, and Data Analysis – Sociology and Politics BSc Careers | WeAreSTS
What can you do with a degree with a BSc in Sociology and Politics of Science? Joe talks with Isobel Lim (Sociology and Politics of Science BSc 2022) about life after her UCL degree with […]
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Bernissart Iguanodons in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
The Dinosaur Gallery in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels Museum of Natural History) includes the famous Bernissart Iguanodons. This consists of thirty complete or nearly complete skeletons excavated from an underground coal […]
WeAreSTS Episode Library
#209 Youth Suicide Myths: Talking to Save Lives | WeAreSTS
Talking about suicide and its myths can save lives. Easha Kapur (UCL Politics and International Relations BSc, 2025) takes on the critical issue of youth mental health, aiming to debunk prevalent myths that often hinder young people […]
Great Exhibition 1851
History of the Great Exhibition (1851) from The Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue
London in 1851 was site of the Great Exhibition. Formally, it was titled, “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations“. The press focused attention on the giant glass house containing the […]