When they ask you to do a TED Talk, you say yes, especially if it’s a chance to talk about something close to home.

The best thing about doing comedy about the history of science is that racists hate it when you laugh at them.

In October 2019, I hosted the Museums Association Annual Conference. It’s like the Oscars, but for museums.

Krishan Guru-Murthy, Afua Hirsch and me.

I made my debut as a TV historian on ITV’s ‘DNA Journey’, meeting my childhood heroes, ice dancers and Olympians, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

Why yes, this is me, hanging out with Nish Kumar and host Andy Zaltzman, chatting about racist statues.

I was grateful for this chance to talk about the history of science and race with the BBC, in the context of June 2020.

I delivered Boring Talk No. 25, talking about how everything you’ve ever heard about the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham probably isn’t true.

In 2017, I curated an exhibition at University College London about the history of eugenics, told through buildings.

In this podcast I talk to colleagues at researchers at University College London about the university’s history and legacy of eugenics.

While working at UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre, I interviewed colleagues from all over UCL, talking about how they confront eugenic thinking through their research.

There’s a lot of talk about whether the Parthenon Marbles should go back to Greece. Almost no one talks about why they were brought to Britain in the first place.

In case of cultural emergency, break glass.

‘The Demon-Haunted House’ Beltane 2021

‘We need to decolonise museums’ May 23, 2019

‘Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections’ co-written with Dr. Miranda Lowe, 2018

‘Francis Galton and the History of Eugenics at UCL’ October 22, 2015