Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Many societal goals for markets can be achieved with more...
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years...
Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...
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?
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Late, 1971-1976 ‘In the history of art late works are the catastrophes,’...
Burma and North Korea - Avoid the Law unless Convenient Conflicts in both these countries show the real limits of...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...