18:00 Chart Discussion 18:45 Tea Break 19:15  Poisoned Russian Dissidents: Alison Kelly From poisoned umbrellas involving Bulgarian playwright Georgi Markov back in 1978, who unfortunately died, to the incident involving the nerve agent Novichock on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in 2020, which hospitalised Alexei Navalny, Alison will take us down the poisoned path involving assassinations which […]

18:00 Chart Discussion 18:45 Tea Break 19:00 Jerome Cardan: Doctor, Astrologer, Mathematician, Gambler: Bernard Eccles Jerome Cardan (1501-76) was a Renaissance polymath who could apparently do everything. Famed throughout Europe for his medical skills, he was summoned to Scotland in 1552 to treat the Archbishop of St Andrews (successfully) and met the young king Edward VI of […]