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Sneezing, smells and noses
The profound effects of losing our sense of smell, why historians should think more about the smells of the past and some thoughts on sneezing from M…
2 years, 7 months ago
Linda Grant and Jewish history
A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel …
2 years, 7 months ago
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
Disney's The Little Mermaid and a musical adaptation of a Caribbean version of the story kick off our conversation as Shahidha Bari is joined by dire…
2 years, 7 months ago
Essex
Thanks in part to the birth of those enduring caricatures - Essex Man & Essex Girl - in the 1990s, this is a county that has struggled to break free …
2 years, 7 months ago
Rocky Horror and camp
Premiered to 63 people at the Royal Court back in 1973, the Rocky Horror Show is marking its anniversary with a production touring the UK. New Genera…
2 years, 7 months ago
Zimbabwean writing
A '70s London squat was home to the writer Dambudzo Marechera when he was writing his first novel The House of Hunger (1978), which was published in …
2 years, 7 months ago
Agoraphobia
"Not so much a fear of going out as a fear of something dreadful happening whilst being out" - writer Graham Caveney talks to Matthew Sweet about his…
2 years, 8 months ago
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
Overcoming grief, historian Rachel Hewitt's new book mixes recent personal history and her experiences of fell running and lockdown with her research…
2 years, 8 months ago
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
650 years since the visions of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe's birth in King's Lynn, two novels have been published which explore these influen…
2 years, 8 months ago
Kingship and ceremony
Luxury and Power is the title of a new British Museum exhibition focusing on the politics of display used by rulers in Persia and Greece. Ahead of th…
2 years, 8 months ago