The day has three lectures:

The Hansa: beginnings. How German merchants from Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen began to work together to secure trade routes in the Baltic and the North Sea from the late 12th century.

The Hanseatic league spreads around the Baltic and as far as England, Scotland, Norway and Muscovy, trading in a wide range of goods including amber, fur, resin, timber, salt and wool, and setting up warehouses or 'kontors' such as the Steelyard in London.

The culture of the Hanseatic league: its characteristic Northern Brick Gothic architecture in churches, guildhalls and town halls throughout northern Europe. The burning of the Steelyard in the Fire of London, and the final Hansa meeting in 1669, after which the league dissolved. Modern revivals of the Hanseatic idea today.