Rupert Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 4640205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rupert Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rupert |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London, UK; Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7263-0437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Within These Four Walls
The paper examines BBC television programmes that feature museum spaces of science and technology, contextualizing the development of this programme type in the 1950s and 1960s with science (and history-of-science) broadcasting. In 1971, the BBC televised a ten-part series devoted to UK science and technology museums. Within These Four Walls , the central case study, featured episodes filmed at the Natural History Museum, the National Maritime Mu…
The BBC’s Controversy and the politics of audience participation
A Tale of Two Train Journeys
It was during two train-journey meetings with the physicist William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) that both Charles Percy Snow's (1905–1980) civil service career and, if the anecdotal evidence is to be believed, the ‘two cultures’ metaphor originated. The first part of this paper is concerned with the background, consequences and significance of the first of these journeys: Kettering station in 1939. It will address the somewhat hazy record of Snow'…
The importance of picking Porter
This paper examines the cultural reasons why in 1964 the Royal Institution (RI) selected George Porter, who became the only person so far to have been Director of the Royal Institution (1966–85), President of the Royal Society (1985–90) and President of the British Association (1985–86) at the same time, to succeed William Lawrence Bragg as the institution's scientific director and resident professor. Porter was established as first choice by an …
A Tale of Two Train Journeys
It was during two train-journey meetings with the physicist William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) that both Charles Percy Snow's (1905–1980) civil service career and, if the anecdotal evidence is to be believed, the ‘two cultures’ metaphor originated. The first part of this paper is concerned with the background, consequences and significance of the first of these journeys: Kettering station in 1939. It will address the somewhat hazy record of Snow'…
The importance of picking Porter
This paper examines the cultural reasons why in 1964 the Royal Institution (RI) selected George Porter, who became the only person so far to have been Director of the Royal Institution (1966–85), President of the Royal Society (1985–90) and President of the British Association (1985–86) at the same time, to succeed William Lawrence Bragg as the institution's scientific director and resident professor. Porter was established as first choice by an …
A Tale of Two Train Journeys
It was during two train-journey meetings with the physicist William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) that both Charles Percy Snow's (1905–1980) civil service career and, if the anecdotal evidence is to be believed, the ‘two cultures’ metaphor originated. The first part of this paper is concerned with the background, consequences and significance of the first of these journeys: Kettering station in 1939. It will address the somewhat hazy record of Snow'…
The BBC’s Controversy and the politics of audience participation
Within These Four Walls
The paper examines BBC television programmes that feature museum spaces of science and technology, contextualizing the development of this programme type in the 1950s and 1960s with science (and history-of-science) broadcasting. In 1971, the BBC televised a ten-part series devoted to UK science and technology museums. Within These Four Walls , the central case study, featured episodes filmed at the Natural History Museum, the National Maritime Mu…
History of Science and Natural History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · George (robot) (2 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (2 works) · Institution (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)