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“Handelskammer Hamburg” is the Chamber of Commerce for Hamburg – Unlike British or American chambers, German Handelskammers have statutory powers and levy charges on businesses. Their compulsory status also encourages leading businesspeople to participate more earnestly in commerce and…
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…
In these days of continuous assessment, how do you know where you stand? For folks in the City you could do worse than look into the Liber Albus 2015 (White Book 2015). So what am I to make of this…
[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…
Today was one of the most delightful days for me. The Furniture Makers made me, as their Alderman, an Honorary Liveryman. It was a lovely ceremony done both in good taste and a speed just below haste and well above boring.…
The City of London is a fascinating study of two millennia of urban development. I finished my first year on the Planning & Transportation Committee this month. Inthe 1970’s I spent quite a bit of time working at the Harvard…
It would be difficult to cram in any more events between the parties. Not only have we had the Z/Yen Christmas Party, my 27th annual boozy breakfast on Lady Daphne (beer courtesy of Fuller’s!), the annual Broad Street Ward Club…
One of the more unusual things I’ve had to do lately was acquire a top hat for Remembrance Sunday services at St Paul’s and the Royal Exchange. For those who know of our family’s associations with Wilton’s Music Hall, including…
