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Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen

The earliest London-made films showed the Victorian city doing everyday business, before its fictional screen image became increasingly shadowy and sinister.

Profit or Purpose?

Do businesses exist to make profits, or to serve a...

Computers and the Future

What can we learn from the first seven decades of our cyber enabled world that will help us to design the best future for ourselves and our children?

The British Economy: Can We Build a Successful Future?

In this final lecture we will consider whether we can plot a more successful future than our recent history might suggest and what that implies for our economic and political institutions.

Air Pollution: Its Impact on Health and Possible Solutions

This lecture will consider the evidence for different forms of air pollution causing diseases, and outline some of the potential solutions.

Regional, Industrial and Infrastructure Policies

There are large disparities in economic performance at the regional level in the UK. We need to consider what kinds of policies might raise regional performance and the extent which directed industrial policies and infrastructure spending might be employed to iron out differences.

Is 'Green Business' a Contradiction in Terms?

There are green marketing scams, and dubious data being deployed to benefit shareholders. Are global businesses now leading politicians in moving towards more sustainable practice or is this an example of a ‘post-truth’ society?

The Structure of Finance

The experience of inter-mediation in the UK does not encourage the thought that long term finance can easily be located. Do we need a Development Bank?

Trust-Busting or Trust-Building: How Can The City Earn Trust?

This talk and panel discussion will explore the fundamentals of trust, why companies lower standards at their peril, and what, other than pious words, can be done to restore confidence that society has appropriate levels of commercial trust.

Votes for Women: A Centenary Celebration

The campaign to achieve the parliamentary vote for women (6 February 1918) took 52 years, from 1866 to 1918. During that time women and their male supporters employed both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary tactics, ranging from the presentation of petitions to the detonation of bombs.

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