By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
Like most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of study: the history of a single Jamaican slave plantation. At that time, in the late 60’s, slavery was ...
By Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain
My friends and family sometimes ask me why I have chosen to spend the last ten years of my life studying the history of finance. It’s a good question. To them I’m sure it seems a bit ...
By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
London’s underground map is now globally ubiquitous. Part electrical schematic, part Mondrian neo-plasticism it is perhaps one of the city’s most recognisable cultural artefacts. T-s...