Academic connections

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

In 1968 I went up to Edinburgh University to study for an MA in Archaeology. At the last minute I managed to find a place at Masson Hall of Residence and in conversation with the Warden, Janet Pares, about Russia was recommended to read a history by Bernard Pares. In 1988, after funding for my research post in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology ceased, I applied for a post in the University of London Library and they suggested that I should apply for a job in the library of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. I worked there from 1988 to 2001. In 1992 I read a memoir by Professor R.A. Humphreys, the first director of the Institute, about his wife, Elisabeth, and realised that she was the sister of Richard Pares, the historian, and sister-in-law of the Warden of Masson Hall.
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