Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
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?
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Religion in the City: Christian Philanthropy and the City 1830-1850 Religion in the City: Christian Philanthropy and the City 1830-1850...