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...
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
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 Many societal goals for markets can be achieved with more...
The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...