Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
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...
Modern Art - Enemy or Friend of Religious Art? The last century has seen changes in artistic style that...
Faces in Court 1893-1918: Drawings of William Hartley from New Scotland Yard's Crime Museum William Hartley (1862-1937) was an early Fleet Street photographer whose...