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Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history

Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...

The Legal Quays: Sir William Paulet, First Marquis of Winchester

Sir William Paulet (c.1483-1572) is perhaps unique in his long...

Sir Thomas Gresham and the New Learning

Sir Thomas Gresham founded his College in 1597 in order...

Gresham and Antwerp

Professor Guido Marnef, Professor of Early Modern History at the...

Trading Identities: The image of the merchant

What was a merchant in 16th Century Europe, and what...

Making Art in Tudor Britain

An exploration of the environment in which art was produced...

Health on the ocean waves: The sea-doctor afloat and in port

A lecture by Professor Allan Chapman, University of Oxford

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - A well-scrubbed world

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

Sir Thomas Gresham and The New Learning

The subjects chosen by Sir Thomas Gresham for his Professors...