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Posted on September 20, 2012 by Aileen Fyfe

Recreating Victorian popular science

We’re all supposed to be engaging in outreach, and extending our educational activities beyond the campus, but for me (and, I suspect, for most historians) this often takes the form of a public lecture. Public lectures are a familiar format, and easy for us to do – but given what we know about effective classroom […]

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