Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Michael Mainelli, Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce with Paul...
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion?
Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...