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
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 monasteries. In just four years, from 1536 to 1540, the monastic houses which had grown up across England during the...
The colonists were at first demanding only equal rights with British citizens, until the events of April 1775. In 1837, the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson...
On 4 June 1989, an estimated one million peaceful protestors in China were met with machine gun fire and tank columns in what would be known forever as the Tiananmen Square...
An economist once relayed to me a conversation that he had with his teenage niece regarding the content of her high school global history class. When he asked her about the...
This article was originally published in February 2018. An ornate fresco that once adorned the residence of a wealthy Roman citizen was discovered by our archaeologists at 21...
The railways made a rapid impact on Britain. It was only in 1830 that inter-city rail travel started with the link between Liverpool and Manchester, but by 1840, they, and the...
We are at a key moment in economic history right now. This is the definitive movement of the world and economic life from a world of territorial states and economies to one of...
The state of Massachusetts has now entered Phase III Step 2 of a reopening, which means all sorts of amazing nonsense cobbled together by people with power who imagine that their...
This article was originally published here in July 2020. One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox....
The context for the recent government housebuilding announcement.