Outstanding account

2007-08-29T00:00:00

Source: Sydney Newbery, Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

In 1959, the scientist-cum-novelist C P Snow famously postulated that society was enervated by the rigid separation of two cultures – the humanities and science.

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