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SUMMARY:Historian as detective: the search for Darwin's predecessors - Pro
 fessor Rebecca Stott\, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writin
 g\, University of East Anglia
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CONTACT:Paul Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Stott is a novelist\, non-fiction writer\, b
 roadcaster and academic who works across several different disciplines inc
 luding history\, art history\, literature and history of science.\n\nProfe
 ssor Stott studied English and Art History at the University of York\, goi
 ng on to teach there after completing her PhD. She subsequently taught at 
 the University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University\, before being appoin
 ted to a chair at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Stott now teac
 hes half of the year at the University of East Anglia and works the other 
 as a freelance writer. She is also an affiliated scholar at the Department
  of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.\
 n\nHer most recent book\, _Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evoluti
 onists_\, tells the 2\,200-year history of evolution before Darwin\, throu
 gh the lives of the heretics and freethinkers who were prepared to risk th
 eir freedom by challenging religious orthodoxies about the origin of speci
 es.\n\nBooking is essential as places are limited – "book online via the
  ICE website":http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/madingleylectures/historian-as-dete
 ctive-the-search-for-darwins-predecessors
LOCATION:Institute of Continuing Education\, Madingley Hall
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