Course: The History of Statistics in the UK and Ireland

Itinerary

CITY

TRIP DAY

UK DATE

DAY OF WEEK

ACTIVITY

London

Day 1

Tue, Sep 24 Tuesday

11:30am - Flight from Cedar Rapids airport
6:00am - Arrival at Heathrow Airport
7:00am - Drop of Bags
12:00pm - London City Tour and Afternoon Tea (includes paid lunch)

London

Day 2

Wed, Sep 25 Wednesday

10:00am - London Science Museum + Antarctica 3D
2:30pm - Walk Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

London

Day 3

Thu, Sep 26 Thursday

10:10am - British Museum
2:00pm - Tour on UCL Campus by Historian Subhadra Das on Statisticians and Eugenics

London

Day 4

Fri, Sep 27 Friday

10:00am - National Archives
2:00pm - UCL Archives

London

Day 5

Sat, Sep 28 Saturday

10:00am Tower of London
3:00 pm - Football Game Millwall vs Preston North End, The Den, London

London

Day 6

Sun, Sep 29 Sunday

Free Morning/Early afternoon
2:30pm - Florence Nightingale Museum and Tour
4:00pm - Walking the Ghost Map with Professor Ann Cannon
5:30pm - Group Dinner at John Snow Pub (paid)

London

Day 7

Mon, Sep 30 Monday

10:30am - Office of Official Statistics Seminar (coffee provided)
Speaker Mary Gregory, Director of Population Statistics
Free Afternoon
7:30pm - Hamilton (O)

Bletchley Park (London)

Day 8

Tue, Oct 1 Tuesday

Early Morning - Travel to Bletchley
10:30am Bletchley Park (includes paid lunch)
3:00pm - National Museum of Computing
5:30pm - Group Dinner (paid)

Cambridge (London)

Day 9

Wed, Oct 2 Wednesday

8:00am - Day Travel to Cambridge
11:00am - Science tour of Cambridge + Kings College Chapel
Group Lunch (paid)
8:00pm - SIX (O)

London

Day 10

Thu, Oct 3 Thursday

Free Day
Communicate your plans with instructors
7:30pm - Wicked (O)

Harpenden
(London)

Day 11

Fri, Oct 4 Friday

7:30am - Full-Day Travel to Harpenden
9:00am - Rothamsted Research (includes morning coffee/biscuits and lunch)
Group Dinner (paid)

London to Edinburgh

Day 12

Sat, Oct 5 Saturday

10:30 am from Kings Cross Station, Train London to Edinburgh
Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley Station at 4:13pm
Group Dinner (paid)

Edinburgh

Day 13

Sun, Oct 6 Sunday

9:00am - National Museum of Scotland (O)
1:15/2:15pm - Edinburgh Castle (O)
6:00pm Ghost Tour of Edinburgh Vaults (O)

Edinburgh

Day 14

Mon, Oct 7 Monday

Morning Free
1:30pm - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh &
The Surgeons Hall Museum

Edinburgh

Day 15

Tue, Oct 8 Tuesday

10:00am - Napier University (Merchiston Tower)
Talk: Text Analysis with Scottish Gaelic
Group Lunch (paid)
2:00pm - University of Edinburgh Archives

Edinburgh

Day 16

Wed, Oct 9 Wednesday

10:00am - The Data Lab, University of Edinburgh visit
1:30pm - RSS Speaker, Zhaoxi Zhang, ”Story of Scottish Statistics”

Edinburgh to Dublin
(Maynooth)

Day 17

Thu, Oct 10 Thursday

Early Flight to Dublin
3:00pm - Seminar, Rob Kitchen, Maynooth University
Group Dinner (paid)

Dublin

Day 18

Fri, Oct 11 Friday

Breakfast at Hostel Paid
10:00am - SSIS Speaker, Shane Whelan
2:00pm - The Book of Kells & the Old Library and Trinity College Tour (O)

Dublin

Day 19

Sat, Oct 12 Saturday

Breakfast at Hostel Paid
Free day
Communicate your plans with instructors

Belfast and N. Ireland (Dublin)

Day 20

Sun, Oct 13 Sunday

7:15am - Full Day trip to Belfast:
Breakfast will be provided on the bus.
Titanic Museum, Giants Causeway

Dublin

Day 21

Mon, Oct 14 Monday

Breakfast at Hostel Paid
10:00am - Guinness Brewery Archives and Tour
3:00pm - Kilmainham Gaol Museum (O)

Dublin

Day 22

Tue, Oct 15 Tuesday

Breakfast at Hostel Paid
11:30am (Dublin Time), Flight from Dublin Airport
Return to Cedar Rapids at 7:30 PM (Central Time)

(O) indicates an optional activity. You must notify your instructor if you are NOT attending.

Course Google Calendar

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y184Y2Y5OTJlMTM1NzVhMDZiYjljNDczNjI5ZGNhYTMwNGEzY2VkNmZlYTM2MDg1ZTg5ODE5YjM4M2Y0YWQ1N2QwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

You can also see some details about accommodations.

Cities in parenthesis are where we are starting and ending the day in.

Maps

London

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1ie_02ewVHqaLGgAt0GQ8cjA9o8K55SE&usp=sharing

Edinburgh

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1jOol71bkAZ_lTZvLIah0aOZJ6rTu2Ck&usp=sharing

How to use your Ridacard in Edinburgh: https://edinburghtrams.com/ridacard

Dublin

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1e4c55418nfiQ1KZptUuY2YtSvtv3sxY&usp=sharing

TFI Leap Card

Which services: https://about.leapcard.ie/dublin

How to use: https://about.leapcard.ie/faq/how-to-use-a-tfi-leap-card - Touch on off for rails, touch on for bus