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New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
From Lyons’ Corner House opera performances in the 1920s to 1980s productions staged in fish and chip shops in Scotland – Alexandra Wilson has been s…
2 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Food
Lady Fanshawe’s ‘Receipt Book’ (c.1651-1707) provides the inspiration for a public cooking event at Tamworth castle hosted by the academic Sara Read …
2 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness
Around 3 million Bengali Pakistanis now live in Pakistan it is estimated and a research project has been exploring their experiences, mixing oral tes…
2 years, 5 months ago
African identity via China and photography
Writers Teju Cole and Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.
The exhibition A World in Common: Contemporary African Photogr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robert Aickman
"Strange stories" is the way Robert Aickman (1914-1981) described his fiction and to be honest that's putting it mildly. When he wasn't writing fict…
2 years, 5 months ago
Eliza Flower and non-conformist thinking
The first live concert in 175 years of songs and music written by Eliza Flower (1803-1846) takes place tomorrow. A friend of JS Mill, Harriet Martine…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sleep
Sleep science pioneer Nathaniel Kleitman descended into a cave in 1938 to investigate the nature of our sleep cycle. The experiment was not a success…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Ekow Eshun is curating an exhibition exploring the idea of Sankofa, taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present. Sarah Jilani …
2 years, 6 months ago
Valis and Philip K Dick
A series of revelatory hallucinations that Philip K Dick experienced in 1974, radically altering his view of belief, time and history, were the inspi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Humours and The Body
Bach's view of the body and how that comes through in his cantatas is being studied by violinist and contributor to Radio 3's Early Music Show, Mark …
2 years, 6 months ago