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Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance

This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...

Using extracts from personal family collections, diaries, handbills and other...

Many writers, from Sophocles to Freud, have seen profound significance...

What makes a criminal? Are they born or made? How...

Is body weight due to a constitutional “set point” or...

Many people agree with Gilbert and Sullivan that Darwinian man...

Never one to shy away from th important questions, University...

Humour depends upon a delicate balance of emotional arousal (a...

This lecture is about an extraordinary set of English shipbuilding...

The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...