London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College...
Danish Fairy Tales? From Andersen and the Copenhagen consensus towards a theory of commerce What are markets and why do they matter? What would...
Comets - Visitors from the frozen edge of the Solar System Millions of dirty icebergs orbit around the Sun in a...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
The Origin of the Constellations Who invented the constellations? The constellations that we use to...