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...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...