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Jun 4, 20202 min read

Abstract for “The quest for stability: early public banking in the Mediterranean, 14th to 16th c.”

by Jocopo Sartori ________________________________________________________________________________ Early public banks have been deemed by...

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Apr 14, 20208 min read

Confessions of a Constitutionalist

Dafydd Elis-Thomas The constitution of the United Kingdom holds no mysteries as far as I am concerned, though most of its commentators...

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Apr 11, 20205 min read

Why Utopias Go Wrong

Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie Magazine Thomas More invented the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ‘ou’—‘not’—and ‘topos’—‘place’; i.e....

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Apr 5, 202016 min read

Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism

Benedikt Koehler Anyone who sells a house and makes a profit wants to know what to do with the money they make. If they live in a city...

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Feb 19, 20209 min read

Happy Days: Britain’s Not So Great Depression

Stephen Clark For many, Britain in the 1930s is the age of the Jarrow Marchers, Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and the darkening...

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Feb 19, 202015 min read

Despatch from Southeast Asia:unpacking the region’s complex take on democracy

Sholto Byrnes The idea that liberal democracy is under siege around the globe has been gaining force over the last year or so. A number...

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Feb 19, 202013 min read

Inventions of Numbers and Zero [Excerpt]

Mark Ronan The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Professor Mark Ronan, University College,London at a research seminar. An...

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