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New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Markets, Freedom and Choice

This lecture focuses on the relationship between markets and freedom...

Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics

This lecture is an exploration of the remarkable consequences of...

Why the Enlightenment still matters today

“The Enlightenment” has been regarded as a turning point in...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

Markets in their Place: Moral Values and the Limits of Markets

The aim of this lecture is to be both self...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...

Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League

The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with...