Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...