House, Shop and Wardrobe in London's Merchant Community - Professor Simon Thurley CBE

During the Middle Ages, London was home to one of the largest and richest merchant communities in the world. These men and their families invested heavily in fine architecture both for business and pleasure.
In the first of two lectures with the theme Merchants, Money and Megalomania, Simon Thurley will unearth the lost mercantile buildings of medieval London and show how influential they were.
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[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

Gresham had really done a marvellous job of bringing absolutely engaging lectures to a broad audience. So grateful for these gems of scholarly work

[@demaupin]

Another excellent lecture by Simon Thurley! Thank you, Gresham College and Professor Thurley, for making these freely available.

[@elizabethjohnson7677]

As always, Simon Thurley presents a fascinating angle on a familiar historical narrative via architecture. He is a superb detective with an insatiable curiosity about details that most would pass over unnoticed, and he manages to reveal the significance that, like the scarlet pimpernel, is hidden in plain sight. His speaking manner energetically imparts drama and evokes his own curiosity in his viewers - the rare talents of a true teacher.
-Admiring fan here in Massachusetts.

[@gunnarmason6866]

Incredible lesson on how London became the center of English commerce. Thank you for tossing us these treats as it reinforces my self studies :)

[@stephaniewilson3955]

A fascinating look into an aspect of medieval life that is sadly neglected.

[@chrystalbrown1869]

I'm such a fan of Simon Thurley 👍🙂
Have you ever seen him show up on Time Team as an architectural and history expert?
Such a treat 😍

[@davidevans3227]

greetings from cardiff, south wales.. sea port.
such interesting lectures..
thankyou for sharing them.

[@zaxazara4561]

thank u

[@Dimera09]

Simon is a G

[@karlpages1970]

Thanks 4 the vid :-) Once they fortified the grain they would have set about causing a need for scarcity as a means of increasing demand and raising the price...Society will always improve; especially as people become self sufficient..