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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on the drama captured in de Loutherbourg's Coalbrookdale by Night, which shaped early impressions of Britain's Industrial Revolution Show more
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Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on weird goings-on at The Royal Institution with hallucinatory gas and the impact of Gillray's Scientific Researches! in a new age of chemistry. Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth on challenges by Romantic artists and naturalists to grapple with cloud patterns, from Constable's fine art to a new science of meteorology Show more
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Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth begin their series exploring how art and science have inspired each other with Joseph Wright of Derby's A Philosopher Giving A Lecture On The Orrery. Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth focus on how arrival of the railways shaped ideas about rapid progress, depicted in JMW Turner's Rain Steam and Speed, and the Firefly locomotive Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth with their first omnibus edition exploring how art and science have inspired each other in an age of Industrialisation and Romance. Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth on instantaneous images of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and physiologist Etienne Jules Marey. What kind of truths were being caught? Show more
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Dr Tilly Blyth on the impact of new synthetic dyes in the mid-19th century and the rush for new colours in fashion, that revolutionised science’s place in the public sphere. Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on the tension between scientific and aesthetic images in the botanical world with the rise of photography and print Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford focuses on how James Nasmyth’s artistic interpretation of the moon’s surface created scientific fact. Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on the Futurists art movement's obsession with new dynamos of modernity and its glorification of speed and risk in a new age of cycling Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth with their second omnibus edition exploring how art and science have inspired each other in the 19th century's Age of Enthusiasm Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on mechanisation of time depicted in LS Lowry's A Manufacturing Town and the anxieties of treating the human as a unit of production Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth focus on the Dada art movement's furious reaction to the First World War technology that tore soldiers apart and then put them back together Show more
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Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth with an omnibus edition exploring how art and science have inspired each other in the early 20th century's Age of Ambivilance Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Dr Tilly Blyth with their final omnibus edition exploring how science and art have inspired each other in our modern day Age of Ambivalence Show more
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Sir Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth focus on how the arrival of new synthetic materials shaped worries of post war industrial change depicted in the comedy The Man in the White Suit Show more
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Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on conveying the imagination and science of new technology in the race to break the sound barrier that would lead to the iconic design of Concorde. Show more
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Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on a conversation between art and maths, and the inspiration Barbara Hepworth gained from mysterious properties of geometric stringed maths models Show more
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Dr Tilly Blyth explores how textile design and patterns from x-ray crystallography came together to create a new modernity at the 1951 Festival of Britain Show more
