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...
Carbon Takeback: How We Will Stop Fossil Fuels from Causing Global Warming We have to stop fossil fuels from causing global warming...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
How to get ahead in commerce: The sure-fire ways to make money One school of thought says that markets are just casinos...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...