# New social benefits from an old Docklands discovery

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr David Leaback
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/new-social-benefits-old-docklands-discovery)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

2006 marks the sesquicentenary of William Perkin's discovery of mauveine. New research on his life and hundreds of accounts of his discovery have revealed hitherto unrecognised medical motivation for his work, together with a need for better ways of encouraging young and old to share Perkin's concern to make significant advances in the sciences yield net social benefits.

## Lectures

1. [New social benefits from an old Docklands discovery](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/new-social-benefits-old-docklands-discovery/c5bf0222b31e) (YouTube)