Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Our contributors go back in time to look at how trends in property investment have been affected by economic history – and vice versa
On Saturday, 29 May 1660, the diarist John Evelyn wrote: “I stood in the Strand, and beheld it, and blessed God: and all this without one drop of blood, and by that very army which rebelled against him.” Evelyn was describing the triumphal procession into London led by Charles II which marked that...
Few events have contributed more powerfully to England’s sense of identity as a sovereign Protestantnation than the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. But for that, England...
When Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne in November 1558, perhaps the most difficult and sensitive problem that she had to address was the question of England’s religion. ...
Of all the changes associated with the English Reformation, probably none affected the nation’s landscape and built environment more profoundly than the dissolution of the...
This article was originally published August 2022. There has been a significant decline in union-led strike action in the 21st-century UK. But with average public sector pay...
This article was originally published August 2023. The coronavirus pandemic inevitably prompts thoughts of previous pandemics that have afflicted this country. In terms of the...
This article was originally published in July 2022. Review: Paper City, directed by Adrian Francis In his first feature-length documentary, Adelaide-born director Adrian Francis...
While there is evidence that the wives of Musselburgh fishermen played in a golf competition in 1811, the first ladies’ golf club was formed at St Andrews in 1867, where they...
The end of the Middle Ages? The Battle of Bosworth Field, on Saturday, 22 August 1485, has often been taken as marking not only the end of the Wars of the Roses but also the...
Originally published March 2023. This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the region prompted the creation of two new...