Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation Many societal goals for markets can be achieved with more...
Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? In the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with...
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...