Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...
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...
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Michael Mainelli, Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce with Paul...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on...