Theo Barker

Commentators have tended to play down the importance of London as a business and industrial centre since 1500, argues Theo Barker, and in the process have distorted the saga of Britain’s economic rise and fall.

Theo Barker on how 150 years of innovations in global movement have transformed what we eat, think and wear

Theo Barker looks at how Britain innovated and kept ahead of her international competitors before the Great War.