By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global PowerLike 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 not a commo
By Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary BritainMy 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 of an odd f
By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLondon’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-shirts, frid