Curated playlist
Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
- Miranda KaufmannHistorian Miranda Kaufmann found Africans living in Tudor England. They arrived before the transatlantic slave trade.
- Karl MarxKarl Marx left an estate valued at just 250 pounds when he died in 1883. He died stateless in London at 64.
- William HogarthHogarth's 1751 print Gin Lane shows a mother letting her baby fall to its death. The prints supported the Gin Act 1751.
- Robert StephensonRobert Stephenson twice turned down a knighthood. The railway engineer was offered it by Queen Victoria in 1849.
- Joseph LockeJoseph Locke built railways without tunnels when rivals thought tunnels were unavoidable.
- Nicholas BarrNicholas Barr's book "The Economics of the Welfare State" has run to six editions since 1987.
- Joseph WhitworthSir Joseph Whitworth was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, he demonstrated a measuring system precise to one millionth of an inch. That is about 25 nanometres, a distance no…
- Matthew MurrayMatthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive in 1812.
- Linus PaulingLinus Pauling left high school without a diploma. He later won two unshared Nobel Prizes, a first in history.
- Srinivasa RamanujanSrinivasa Ramanujan was ill in a hospital at Putney when G. H. Hardy came to visit him. Hardy had ridden there in taxi cab number 1729. He remarked that the number seemed rather dull, and he hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. Ramanujan…