How Science Made the Victorian Future

  • Date and time: Friday 8 June 2018, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
  • Location: PL/001 Physics Exhibition Centre, University of York
  • Admission: FREE - booking required

Event details

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Professor Marmaduke Salt of the Royal Panopticon of Popular Science (Iwan Rhys Morus of Aberystwyth University) performs spectacular electrical experiments onstage.

By recreating a late Victorian lecture, this event will explore the ways in which audiences for science at the end of the 19th century were invited to imagine the ways in which science would transform the future. Find out how people in Victorian times thought about the future and how they thought it would come about.

About the speaker

Professor Iwan Rhys Morus of Aberystwyth University is a historian of Victorian science and the author of a number of books on Victorian science. He is particularly interested in how the Victorians imagined the future. His alter ego, Marmaduke Salt, is a professor at the Royal Panopticon of Popular Science.

Wheelchair accessible

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