The Double Helix History Word Tour ™ has been continuing in full swing over recent weeks with talks and workshops in Canberra and Sydney, focus groups in Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield and interviews across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire as we continued our push...
Category: DNA
Thoughts on family history in Australia
After a busy few weeks of events, interviews, and focus groups in July and early August in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, we have had some time to listen back to our recordings, transcribe and categorise the responses received ad reflect on our many conversations...
Community engagement at Webster Primary School
The Double-Helix History project linked up with the Community Engagement programme in the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health to visit Webster Primary School for some experiments and creative teaching activities around DNA on 21st June...
Family History, Science and Irishness
A Double-Helix History live event at the Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester, part of the Manchester Histories Festival, 9 June 2018 DHH took over the Irish World Heritage Centre on Saturday morning for an event bringing together a range of expert speakers to...
Seeing DNA, and seeing Rosalind Franklin
Much of this project looks at how people visualise DNA. In the main this means the ways that consumers of DNA testing might conceive of themselves in relation to a ‘model’ or structure of a double-helix. So I’m really interested, for instance, in the phenomenon of...
Family History LIVE
In October I was in Dublin where I visited the Back to Our Past event that was held at the Royal Dublin Society buildings. This is a huge event, sponsored by Ancestry, attached to an even wider fair presenting a whole range of products and services aimed at retired...
Blog: DNA testing goes popular (and daytime)
In this clip from his late night TV show on the 6 October, the comedian Stephen Colbert look at the rapidly expanding market for direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT). Colbert points out how direct to consumer genetic testing is ‘big business’, expected to be...
Blog: Academic Grandparent on Twitter
Last week I found an interesting site where Mathematicians were listed according to their doctoral supervisor. The Mathematics Genealogy project was designed to record information about the way that knowledge is transmitted and provokes an interesting conversation...
Blog 2: DNA and national identity
In July 2016 The Telegraph ran an article entitled ‘How British Are You?’ The article reported an Ancestry.com study that looked at 15000 users of its DNA sequencing service. Amongst other things the study looked for DNA matches with ‘Anglo-Saxon’, and this is the...
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