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Media
Media
BBC R4, Human Intelligence - Teachers: Mary Somerville. Listen here.
BBC World Service - The Forum, Mary Somerville. Listen here.
Relatively Prime Podcast, The Somervilles. Listen here. March 2020.
Oxford Sparks Podcast, How did Mary Somerville get on the Scottish £10 note? Listen here. February 2018
Antiques Road Trip, BBC1, The story of the Queen of 19th-century Science. Series 15, Ep 19. First broadcast October, 2017.
Talks and Workshops
Talks and Workshops
Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London, Camden History Society, October 2025. Watch recording here.
Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London, Women for Women (by Pascal Theatre). Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, November 2024. Transcript Available Here.
Milton Keynes Islamic Art and Culture, City of Codes and Light Launch Event, Collaborative mathematics: From the Islamic Golden Age to Today, October 2024.
Black History Month x STEMinar (Open University), Sharing Something Beautiful: David Blackwell, A statistician in 20th-century USA (joint with Poppy Tillott). October 2024.
Organised a 'Transcribe-a-thon' in collaboration with Somerville College to mark 150 years since the death of Mary Somerville, 29th November 2022. Read the letter transcripts here.
International Day of Women in Mathematics Celebration: Wrote and hosted a quiz on the history of women in mathematics. University College Dublin (Online), May 2021.
London Mathematical Society (LMS) Women and Non-Binary People in Mathematics conference: Facilitated group discussion on "Role Models: What are they good for?''. University of Leeds (Online), February 2021.
Engaging with Maths Undergraduate Seminar, Mister Mary Somerville. Middlesex University (Online), November 2020.
Organised Wikithon to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Open University, 11th February 2020.
Mathematrix Graduate Student Diversity Discussion Group at Mathematical Institute of University of Oxford, Yours ever faithfully, Mary Somerville. Oxford, UK, November 2019.
Open University & Royal Institution Masterclass (workshop for high school students), Mathematics Through History: Isaac Newton's Fluxional Calculus. Bletchley Park, UK, November 2018 & October 2019.
STEM Lectures for Year 7 Students at Kents’ Hill Park School, Mathematics Beyond Numbers – using calculus to study the solar system. Milton Keynes, UK, June, 2019.
Diversifying the Curriculum Workshop, Benefits to Students of Diversifying the Curriculum. Oxford, UK, June 2019.
M500 Revision Weekend at The Open University, 19th Century Distance Learning: Mary Somerville and the Differential Calculus. Milton Keynes, UK, May 2019.
What do Historians of Mathematics Do? Undergraduate Seminar at Mathematical Institute of University of Oxford, "Perseverance and intelligence, but no genius": Mary Somerville's Theory of Differences. Oxford, UK, May 2018.
Blog Entries
Blog Entries
Happy Birthday Mary Somerville! Science Museum Blog.
A Tribute to Mary Somerville, for Women of 19th Century Bloomsbury, a project of Pascal Theatre.
Other
Other
Contributor to Ɛpsilon, an online database of 19th century scientific letters developed by Cambridge University Library's Darwin Correspondence Project in partnership with Cambridge University’s Digital Library. Contributed metadata of over 600 letters written to or by Mary Somerville (see here) and transcriptions of letters in the Herschel correspondence (see here).
Volunteer researcher with Uncomfortable Oxford; helped prepare the Hidden Histories Walking Tour of Oxford which uncovers stories obscured by the gendered landscape of the city.
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