The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on On 1 November 1755, Lisbon was devastated by a massive...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...