Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Michael Mainelli, Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce with Paul...
Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...