Why Businesses Fail and What Can Be Done About It Businesses fail all the time. They either go broke, destroying...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Is it really the case that Economic success is negatively correlated with Sporting success? The lecture will look at the links between sporting success...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...
Roy Jenkins, Europe and the Civilised Society Roy Jenkins was Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and...