The London stock market boomed and crashed in 1720. The financial bubble is known to posterity as the South Sea Bubble.

In the three hundred years since, the bubble has been much misunderstood - this lecture separates fact from myth and aims to move beyond simplistic ideas of "gambling mania".

A lecture by Dr Helen Paul 30 March

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/south-sea-bubble

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