Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank...
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...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...
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...