How well does money hold its value?
The above video shows an interview between Nicky Marsh and Tom Hockenhull, curator in Room 68 of the British Museum (the Money Gallery). Tom and Nicky talk about the ways …
Course: Understanding Money: the History of Finance, Speculation and the Stock Market
History of the Global Financial Crisis
In the next three steps, we will look at the Global Financial Crisis that began in 2007. In the video, Paul and Peter discuss how the subprime mortgage began and …
What is the role of financial advice?
With the work of Wall Street increasingly part of Main Street, these legions of amateur investors needed advice. And the publishing industry obliged. From the 1880s onwards, in both Britain …
What colour are Dorothy’s shoes? Or what does The Wizard of Oz tell us about money?
We can see some of the difficulties that people have with imagining money, and the roles that literary and visual texts have in making them apparent, if we look more …
Can money be used to disseminate ideas and values?
In this video, Tom and Nicky talk about the ways in which money is used as a source of cultural as well as economic power and authority. They touch on …
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Understanding Money: the History of Finance, Speculation and the Stock Market
