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...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Michael Mainelli, Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce with Paul...
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years...
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...