The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Entertainment in London in the 18th Century Using extracts from personal family collections, diaries, handbills and other...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: Women in Red Fashionable dress in the nineteenth century had a moral dimension...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
Fuelling the Debate: The English Corn Law returns, the Corn Laws and the birth of political economy The Corn Returns, agricultural data from the 18th and 19th...
The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...
Non-native Plants: A London Perspective Studies on biological invasion generally focus upon non-urban environments, but...
The Building of England: Retrospect and Prospect 410 AD to 2000 In this the final lecture in his series on the...