Economic

The causes of catastrophic financial events that started unfolding in 2007 were many and varied,

Southern Rhodesia was created by acquisitive British colonial entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes, after whom landlocked territory

Every so often, something happens to change the world, from invention of the wheel through

If there was one thing the Conservative Party cherished – and the British electorate admired

The big winners to emerge from World War II were two superpowers that – like

In 1945 Japan was a feudal monarchy that had suffered catastrophic defeat in World War

‘When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold’ so it’s not really

The high life of the Roaring Twenties came to a juddering halt on Black Tuesday

The bank panic of 1907 demonstrates that crises in the banking system are nothing new.

From the mid 19th century the French stock exchange was based in the Palais de

On Friday September 24 1869 Wall Street was paying close attention to the price of

Mid-Victorian global economics evolved under the ever-increasing arch of the British Empire. The City of

At the beginning of the 18th century Europe was in political chaos and by 1710,

Early 18th-century France was in the economic doldrums. The government was drowning in debt and

In his authoritative work on the subject of human folly Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the