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