And another Christmas party on 14 December? No, our every-other-year Gresham Christmas Soirée. It’s one of my favourite events since I first played my bagpipes there in 2005. And in an ever-stronger-every-other-year tradition we recite Barbara Anderson’s wonderful rewrite of…
From Archives to Modern Lives: Frontiers of Trade and Technology A survey of past and present innovation in association with King’s College London Archives, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 Surprisingly for some, London is, and almost always has been, a science…
Ten years ago I gave a lecture on liquidity at Gresham College – “Liquidity: Finance In Motion Or Evaporation?” (5 September 2007). I recommend the transcript as easiest to read with the slides. The lecture was actually scheduled back in February…
This month we, the Trustees of Gresham College, hosted the Lord Mayor’s Gresham Event at Guildhall (he or she is our President!) … London – The Global Maritime Centre in a Changing World Thursday, 28 January 2016 – 6:00pm, Guildhall THE…
Here is a nice story about the ancient Barts Pathology lab helping advance modern medical science a teensy bit over the tragic Kawasaki disease: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kawasaki-disease-an-unknown-illness-with-no-definitive-medicaldiagnosis-and-no-known-cause–but-it-may-all-be-in-the-wind-10376403.html “Gee’s post-mortem examination findings, preserved in a single paragraph written in 1871, recorded signs of damage…
[an edited version of this piece appeared as Michael Mainelli and Valerie Shrimplin, “Sir Thomas Gresham: Tudor, Trader, Shipper, Spy”, London Topographical Society Newsletter, Number 79 (November 2014), pages 3-6.] Good Tales Drive Out Bad Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79) is…
What a most interesting talk to give. My dear friend, Robin Sherlock KCLJ MA, former Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation, asked me to speak at the Ladies’ Dinner of The Dulwich Club where he has been Senior…
Don’t all politicians prattle on? Where do they practice? Well this one is practicing at Gresham College tomorrow night – The event is free and open to the public, including Broad Street electors who wish to assess a potential Alderman’s…
Chairman, Past Chairman, Aldermen, Ladies & Gentlemen When John Scott asked me to address this Committee and its many supporters on behalf of the guests in honour of its Past Chairman at this farewell do, I was greatly honoured. Sidney…
