Is Your Money Safe? Unveiling Hidden Conflicts in Finance Think financial decisions are made by cool-headed robots? Think again...
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Tudor Health Reform: The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective Is the NHS medieval? Is this an insulting claim to...
Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences How did politicians as diverse as Thatcher, Charles de Gaulle...
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation The government of the City of London is older than...
The Spanish Culture of Charles I's Court Heir to the throne Charles I made a secret trip to win the hand of a princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king in Madrid.
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300 During the thirteenth century Jerusalem surplanted Rome as the inspiration...
Playing Catch-up: Palaces from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses What was the difference between the fortress of a great...