A Prediction Not yet the railway mania flags, All are agog for speculation;But such a multitude of stagsMay terminate in a stag-nation. The Times (London, England),...
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Did government covertly restrict mortgage availability?
Post war British economic policy and house-building Macroeconomic policy frameworks followed by governments have definite impacts on all sectors of the economy including the...
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Did high wages actually kickstart the Industrial Revolution?
Academics are at war over new evidence suggesting high pay didn’t spark the rush for labour-saving devices It has been more than 200 years since the start of the Industrial...
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Urban Planning in the UK: A Brief History
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Urban planning is...
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A History of Land Registry and its Importance Today
Recent data from the Office of National Statistics and HM Land registry show that house prices rose 3% in the year to May 2018, relative to a growth of 3.5 percent in the same...
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The Collapse of Carillion: What Can History Teach Us?
Recently, the giant British multinational facilities management and construction company Carillion recently faced compulsory liquidation- a court-based procedure through which...