There is no required morning activity. Suggestions include (all of these are either free or count as reimbursable activities):
1:45pm: Meet outside the Herschel Museum of Astronomy.
2:00pm: Talk (20 minutes) and self-guided tour (about 45 minutes) of the Herschel Museum.
NEW SESSION (added 9/16/17)
4:00-5:30pm: Classroom session in the "conservatory" (adjacent to
the restaurant area) at the YMCA.
Optional reading: A 19th century pamphlet about the smallpox vaccine.
Note: You may prefer to bring your own lunch today, rather than relying on the cafe at Cheddar Gorge. The Waitrose supermarket near the YMCA opens at 7:30 AM.
8:40am: Board the coach outside the hostel.
8:45am: Coach departs the hostel, arriving at Jenner Museum approximately 10 AM. Complete Edward Jenner Exercise (HW5b) based on self-guided tour.
12:15pm: Coach departs Jenner Museum, arriving Cheddar Gorge/Caves approximately 1:30 PM.
From 1:30pm: Allocate your time at the Gorge however you wish. Consult the operator's "plan your day" page for details on the options, which include Gough's Cave, Cox's Cave, a 3-mile clifftop walk, and the Museum of Prehistory. Make a few notes on your visit, but great detail is not required.
5:00pm: Coach departs the Gorge, arriving back at the Bath YMCA approximately 6 PM.
Note: Please bring snacks and/or your own lunch today. It looks like the cafe at Avebury will be closed, and there will probably not be time to get food at the Stonehenge cafe (it's not near the stones, and we need to stay together as a group). The Waitrose supermarket near the YMCA opens at 7:30 AM and is a good option for bringing lunch.
8:15am: Board the coach outside the hostel, with our guide for the day, Luke.
8:20am: Coach departs for Avebury.
9:30am: Arrive at Avebury; tour of Avebury Henge.
11:00am: Alexander Keiller Museum and Barn Gallery. This is also
the best place to eat the lunch you brought.
12:00pm: Depart Avebury
12:15pm: West Kennet Long Barrow
12:45pm: Leave for Stonehenge
1:30pm: Arrive Stonehenge
1:45pm-3:45pm: Stonehenge tour
3:45pm: Depart Stonehenge, returning to Bath approx 4:45pm
Check out of YMCA with all luggage, and walk to the train station on your own in plenty of time.
8:45am: meet at Bath Spa train station. Go directly to the designated platform for our train (the "9:13 for London Paddington") and meet on that platform.
9:13am: train departs for London Paddington, arriving 10:38 AM
approx 10:45am: take the tube from London Paddington to London Liverpool Street (Circle line or Hammersmith and City line).
by 11:30am: meet under the departure boards at London Liverpool Street.
12:00pm: train departs for Norwich, arriving 1:50 PM.
2:00pm: coach departs Norwich train station (the name of the coach company is Spratts), arriving at UEA's Congregation Hall about 15 minutes later. Check in, register, and obtain accommodation keys inside Congregation Hall. Whenever ready, walk in small groups to your accommodation in University Village.
Between 3pm and 3:30pm: meet me in the center of the University Village, to collect your Norwich bag which has now been delivered there.
For the rest of the day, you are free to do your own thing or participate in UEA International orientation events. See the online schedule or use the "UEA international orientation" mobile phone app.
Between 9:30am and 12:00 noon: Visit the directors' residence at 371 Unthank Rd, Norwich NR4 7QG. Collect your stipend, pick up some cooking and eating implements, and (optionally) stay for a coffee or tea. Get to the residence on foot (40-minute walk from the Village) or by bus 25 (get on at Stop A, University Drive; get off at Colman Hospital on Unthank Road).
Recommended for afternoon: Take the bus into the city centre, explore, visit the market square and the cathedral; OR take the bus to the Riverside shopping centre and do your grocery shopping at Morrisons; OR take a UEA campus tour (definitely take a UEA tour today at 11am or 2pm or tomorrow at 11:45am).
Evening: optional UEA orientation events. Some require you to reserve a free ticket online in advance. The pub quiz and the drinks reception at the Sainsbury Center (a superb art gallery) should be very worthwhile.
10:00-11:30am: required UEA orientation talks in LT1
11:45am: UEA campus tour (required if you haven't taken one already)
1:30-3:30pm: required UEA orientation talks in LT1
Afternoon and evening: optional UEA orientation events
Fall-only students: don't forget to check in with each instructor to ensure there is a "coursework-only" option for you for that class.
At the meeting point, you will be given an envelope containing some cash (probably about 100 pounds), a card containing emergency phone numbers, and some printed instructions ("Instructions for the first day ") on how to get to the hotel via the Underground plus other useful information and required activities for the day.
You can leave your Norwich bag at the meeting point. The professors will put you into small groups and instruct you to make your own way to the hotel. Once at your hotel, use the afternoon to get some lunch, get a cell phone, and buy your 16-25 Rail Pass.
All-year students only: a professor will meet you at the hotel after lunch and go with you to pick up your BRP from the post office.
If problems arise during the afternoon, please call/text/email me. Or you can probably find me in the lobby of the Ridgemount.
Optional reading: Do some background reading (Wikipedia is fine) on the Magna Carta, Gutenberg Bible, Lindisfarne Gospels, or anything else that interests you at the Ritblat Gallery.
6pm: Meet me at the Ritblat Gallery of the British Library. This is our first academic event, so the academic travel expectations apply (i.e. bring your notebook and pen, don't have your cell phone out, don't be late, make sure to note two or three items for your timeline assignment.)
11:45am-12:15pm: UEA registration and visa check. This will be in the lobby of the Ridgemount. Please arrive in approximately alphabetical order by last name (A-M 11:45, N-Z 12:00pm). The science course students are being processed after the humanities course students, so timings are approximate.
Before you get on the tube: top up your Oyster card so that it has at least 33 pounds of credit, and use this to buy a 7-day travel card for zones 1 and 2. (You won't physically get a "travel card," but your Oyster card will now give you unlimited travel within zones 1 and 2 for the next week, without requiring any additional credit.)
1:45pm: Meet outside the Wellcome Wolfson building on Queen's Gate (165 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5HE). We will go in together for the talk.
2PM: talk by Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine at the London Science Museum.
After the talk: Complete the following assignment at the Science Museum. Find something in the museum that is relevant either to your major or to some other course you have taken at Dickinson. Make a few notes about it and be prepared to speak for a few minutes. This assignment must be done individually and you must not knowingly use the same topic as another student. (Feel free to visit the museum as a whole in groups, but make sure to do this assignment yourself. )
Note: Even if you prefer using online maps most of the time, do bring your printed mapguide for today's navigation exercise. (I recommend bringing it every day, but especially today.)
10:15am: Meet outside the Royal Society. Bring picture ID and proof
of address (e.g. US drivers license) and completed Royal Society
Library reader registration form
.
10:30am: Guided tour of the Royal Society.
The rest of the day consists of optional activities; feel free to
do your own thing and/or focus on the required reading for
tomorrow. For those who would like to stay with the group, after the
Royal Society tour we will take bus 23 8 over to Old
Spitalfields Market and eat lunch there. Then (again, optionally) I
will give you an ungraded exercise for navigating in London, to be
done in small groups of 2-4. If we get separated on the trip to
Spitalfields or you need to find me after lunch before you set off on
the navigation exercise, I will be based at the coffee shop
called Department
of Coffee and Social Affairs (6 Lamb St). If you complete the
navigation exercise, there is a reward. See the exercise for details.
10:15am: Meet at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The exact
meeting point is outside the Observatory entrance near Wolfe's statue
and close to the Gate Clock. According to Google
Maps, there are many good ways of getting there. Take your pick, but
start early!
Here is one suggestion for getting there from the
Ridgemount:
10:30am: Tour of Prime Meridian and Royal Observatory with Mike Dryland, Voluntary Curatorial Assistant of the Horology Dept. at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
After the tour, grab some lunch, probably in Greenwich Market.
1:15pm: Meet at Greenwich Pier
1:30pm: Boat trip on the Thames with Thames River Services. We'll first travel east to see the Thames Barrier, then the boat turns around and takes us all the way back to Westminster Pier in central London.
There are no scheduled activities today. Relax, catch up on assignments and get ahead on required reading, or do a reimbursable activity.
8:45am: Meet outside the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street.
9:00am: Visit the Faraday Museum inside the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street. Complete the following assignment in your notebook: Find at least five items in the Museum that have direct relevance to today's required reading. For each of the five items, note its exact title in the museum display and write 1-2 sentences describing its connection to the reading. Be specific; include page numbers when describing connections to the reading. Note: You should bring a hard copy or electronic copy of Gribbin with you and consult it while completing this assignment.
2:45pm: Meet inside the main entrance to the Museum of London at 150 London Wall.
3:00pm: Visit the Museum of London. (Sometimes free tours are available and if you are interested in joining one, please do so. Otherwise, explore the museum on your own.) During your visit, consider the following discussion question:
What historical factors enabled London to become a leader in science and technology from 1600 to the present day? What historical factors inhibited scientific and technological progress in London?Make sufficient notes that you can contribute to a discussion of this topic at Wednesday's classroom session. Connect your ideas to specific exhibits and items within the museum.
It is probably best to bring your own lunch with you today. Based on the website, it appears the tea room at Down House is somewhat limited in selection and quantities.
8:25am: Board coach on Gower Street immediately outside the hotel.
8:30am: Coach departs. We will arrive at Down House around 10 AM and begin our visit, which includes a written assignment that will be distributed. We will depart Down House approximately 1:30 PM and should be back at the hotel by 4 PM.
6:15pm: [For those going to the prom concert.] Meet outside the hotels on Gower Street. We will travel together to the concert, which is 7:30 PM at the Royal Albert Hall.
8:55am: Meet outside the classroom at London International Development Centre (LIDC), 36 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD. The entrance is not actually on the square itself, but round the corner on Endsleigh Place. Please don't ring the doorbell as this will disturb the Institute's receptionist upstairs. We will monitor the door and let you in; use your phone to call us if there are difficulties.
Wifi details for the classroom:
9-11am: Classroom session.
2pm: Royal Society group 1 archival research. (See Royal Society groups and instructions.)
Everyone except for Royal Society groups 2 and 3 is recommended to conduct HW4 artifact research today.
Bring 16-24 railcard and all four orange train tickets that were in your packet distributed at the classroom session.
8:30am: Meet at Paddington Station, under the main departure display boards. The train to Oxford departs at 9 AM. We change trains at Didcot Parkway (9:41 AM), arriving at Oxford 10:09 AM.
The scheduled activities today are a 2-hour guided walk with guide Chris Lloyd (starting at the Martyrs Memorial in St Giles, just opposite the Randolph hotel), and a 1-hour visit to The Museum of the History of Science (on Broad Street). For these activities, we divide into two groups:
Group B, while you are waiting for your scheduled activities to begin, feel free to relax, grab coffee, enjoy the Covered Market. If you're looking for something more intellectual, try the Ashmolean Museum (art) or Pitt Rivers Museum (archaeology and anthropology). Or climb the Carfax tower (costs a couple of pounds, but counts as a reimbursable activity). You may also be able to go into an interesting exhibition at the Weston Library.
The museum curators have recommended their "pocket curator" app (available for android and iPhone). You are welcome to download and use that on your phone in the museum if you wish.
Optional: Meet me for a drink at the Lamb and Flag pub on St Giles at 3:45pm. It is about a 20-minute walk from there to the train station.
From 4:15pm onwards: Make your own way back to the station in good time for your train. Check your ticket to see what train you are on: some are on the 5:01 PM and some on the 5:30 PM.
10:15am: Meet outside the entrance to The Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas' St, London SE1 9RY. Easy walk from London Bridge station. The museum is in the attic of St. Thomas' church, a red brick building with white stones on the corners.
10:30am: Visit and talk at The Old Operating Theatre.
2pm: Royal Society group 2 archival research. (See Royal Society groups and instructions.)
2:15pm: [For everyone except Royal Society group 2] Meet in the lobby of the Wellcome Library building, 183 Euston Rd, Bloomsbury, London NW1 2BE.
2:30pm: Guided tour of Wellcome Library and Collection.
6:30-8:30pm: Reception for Dickinson alumni and Dickinson in England students at One Great George (1 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA). Please see the separately-sent email for additional details. There is no need to meet outside the venue. Please travel to the vicinity in good time and enter the venue at 6:30 or shortly thereafter.
Please complete the SCIE258 first-week survey.
Please complete the SCIE258 first-week survey if you haven't done so already.
From 10:00am: Enter the National Portrait Gallery on your own, and begin work on HW5c. The gallery opens at 10 AM, and you will need to start soon after that in order to complete the assignment before we meet. Note:
11:45am: Meet in room 20 of the National Portrait Gallery (level 2, at the very back). Turn in your assignment and be ready for a brief discussion/quiz/etc.
Royal Society group 3 archival research from 2pm. (See Royal Society groups and instructions.)
1:45pm: [For everyone except Royal Society group 3] Meet outside the Bank of England Museum on Bartholomew Ln, London EC2R 8AH. (Don't go to the main entrance of the bank on Threadneedle Street.)
2:00pm: 60-minute presentation on "The Bank of England, past and present," followed by self-guided tour of the Museum. Don't miss the chance to hold and lift a gold bar worth 400,000 pounds.
6:15pm: [For those going to King Lear.] Meet outside the hotels on Gower Street. We will travel together to the Globe for the start of the play at 7:30 PM. I think you'll enjoy the play much more if you try to understand the main points of the plot beforehand. It is rather complex and very interesting. Wikipedia has a good synopsis on its King Lear page.
8:55am: Arrive at the classroom.
9-11am: Classroom session. Please bring a copy of Gribbin (paper or electronic) to the session.
We have some slots reserved at the Royal Society for this afternoon. If you need to revisit the Royal Society to do additional archival research, this would be a good time to do it. Please notify me in advance if you intend to do this, and arrive at the Royal Society at approximately 2 PM. You are excused from the visit to the Linnaean Society if you pursue this option.
1:45pm: Meet outside the Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF.
2pm: One-hour guided tour of the Linnean Society.
9:00am: Meet under the main departure boards at Euston station (train station, not underground station). Bring train tickets for Bletchley Park and 16-24 rail card.
9:24am: Train departs for Bletchley, arriving 10:15am.
10:30am: guided tour of Bletchley Park.
2:30pm: guided tour of National Museum of Computing.
4:27pm: Train departs Bletchley for London Euston, arriving 5:18pm.
6:00pm-8:00pm: [Optional] Lecture at the Alan Turing Institute (Level 1 inside the British Library): "Machines that see" by Andrew Blake (Director of the Turing Institute and Royal Society fellow).
Between 10 AM and 11 AM: I will be waiting in the Cadogan Gallery of the Natural History Museum. Please check in with me there individually (we won't meet as a group). I won't be doing a formal quiz, but I will chat with you about the reading, individually or in small groups. Be prepared, with the help of your notes, to contribute to a meaningful conversation that will form part of your PAE grade. After chatting with me, you can start the following assignment.
Natural History Museum assignment: Complete this assignment in your notebook, and be prepared to describe your results at a subsequent class meeting. Note that the museum is divided into three zones, as follows: Green Zone for birds, ecology, fossils, archaeology, minerals; Red Zone for volcanoes, earthquakes, early earth, evolution of life, geology, mineralogy, wind, water, weather; Blue Zone for dinosaurs, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, marine invertebrates, human biology. There are two steps in the assignment:
Complete the British Museum assignment (HW5d) at any time today. The museum is open 10am-830pm. There's one small correction to this assignment. In Question 3(a), which applies to Room 1, the hint refers to some information in front of cases 1 and 3, but that information is now in front of cases 11 and 13.
The rest of the day is unscheduled. This is our last day in London, so it's a good opportunity to do some final archival research if you need to for HW4b.
Check out of the hotel with all of your luggage in good time.
8:30am: Meet at Paddington rail station, under the departure boards near platform 8.
9:00am: Train for Bath departs, arriving 10:40am.
10:40am: Walk to the YMCA. Leave luggage in a secure room at the YMCA (it will be too early to check in) and get lunch on your own.
12:25pm: Meet at YMCA.
12:30pm-3:30pm: Walking tour studying Bath's architecture with guide Trevor Jones.
3:30pm: Check into YMCA. Rest of the day is free.