Author: Gordon Masterton

The City and Corporation of London launched a Climate Action Strategy in late 2020. It sets out a series of Actions in three areas to: Support the achievement of net zero greenhouse gas emissions Build climate resilience Champion sustainable growth By then, we had already…

Was 2020 a year to remember or a year to forget? Most of us would say the latter. It’s easy to find the downsides in 2020, harder to find the upsides, especially if grief has become personal. But many have also made big transitions in…

We are very proud of our talented and productive members, not least through the books they have written. Those listed below constitute a significant contribution to the dissemination of knowledge of science and engineering, and in some cases, other fields. It is said that everyone…

The Company is most sincerely grateful to our Liveryman and Past Lord Mayor of London, Sir Francis (Frank) McWilliams and his family, who have very kindly donated the handsome model of Ironbridge that was presented to Frank by the Company in 1992 on his accession…

Covid-19 will rebalance the job market, but… As we slowly emerge from total lockdown, businesses are assessing the impact on their employment needs in the Covid-19 economy. For some, that has meant redundancies have been announced, never a pleasant step to take for an employer…

When I first took the Chair of Future Infrastructure at the University of Edinburgh I vowed never to attempt to predict the future. “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”1. All predictions made pre-Covid-19 would testify to that. But adapting to a Covid-19…

Whilst we are still under the lockdown of Covid-19, another critical issue has come under the spotlight from the unnecessary and avoidable death of one man in Minneapolis. But behind that incident lies the far deeper malaise of racism. This has resulted in protests across…

The 19th Century – dramatic changes for the City The 19th Century saw the population of the City of London reduce from 128,000 in 1801 to 27,000 in 1901, whilst London overall was growing fast. The electric telegraph increased employment in the City for finance…

“What have the Romans ever done for us?” One of the answers to that question would be “London”. There is very little archaeological evidence of any settlements inside the modern City’s footprint from the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age. The first large settlement…