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Julia Brockelsby – A Short History of How We Tell the Time
13th February 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Julia Brockelsby was brought up in Littlemore, Oxford and still lives there. After a BA in Economics from Girton College Cambridge, she had several interesting careers, collecting lots of bits of paper along the way: ten years as a polytechnic lecturer, then as an accountant, and joining a global manufacturer as an IT consultant in computer architecture for international systems and banking. By 2000 she was back in Oxford as head of department in an independent sixth form college. She is currently enjoying retirement after completing an Oxford University undergraduate diploma in Archaeology in the Department of Continuing Education. She spends her time researching, studying, travelling, volunteering on archaeological projects and grappling with the astonishingly rich local history of Littlemore and its neighbours.
Julia Brockelsby’s talk explores the nature and development of methods and reasons for wanting to define time, using observation of the world to model and predict events.