Exploration and discovery
Past Exploration and discovery Lectures
The full-rigged ship was the essential technology that enabled the trans-Atlantic slave trade to flourish. Between 1698 and 1807 around...
One of the main advantages of talking about Cutty Sark is being able to say this is a ship which needs no introduction. Richard Doughty...
From 1750 to the early 20th century, fleets of ‘Greenlanders’ – specially strengthened sailing...
Merchants and their achievements occupied a prominent place in London's history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whether in...
Sir Robert Moray brought together members of Gresham College, rich Royalists and struggling Republicans to found the world's first...
This lecture examined the spread of diseases that accompanied European expansion overseas from the fifteenth century, paying particular...
This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of events,...
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Andrew Lambert was...
Next lecture in the series is ...
A first-hand account of a harrowing voyage from the south-west...
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Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But is this true of innovation in services, which now employ 75% of us, as well as in manufacturing...
