Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
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...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...
Stravinsky, Britten and the Lure of the Classical Past Professor Cross examines the themes of metamorphosis and other classical...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...