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Debt
Debt is central to the modern economy and it has long been so. The idea of debt has long been loaded with as much morality as financial meaning. Anne…
3 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: British Sign Language
Body language is being studied as a way of working out new ways of learning Sign Language and if British Sign Language is to be taught as a GCSE in s…
3 years, 1 month ago
Making Your Voice Heard
Iranian women using song to protest and whose voices do we pay attention to ? On International Women's Day, Shahidha Bari hosts a conversation with t…
3 years, 1 month ago
Anarchism and David Graeber
Bullshit jobs, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, Debt: The First 5000 Years: the titles of some of David Graeber's books give a sense of his…
3 years, 1 month ago
Dom Sylvester Houédard
The monk and poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92) used his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter to fuse art and writing in concrete poetry. Born in 1924 h…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Muppets in Moscow is Natasha Lance Rogoff's account of launching a Russian version of the American tv series Sesame Street. If a single announcer sup…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
How sewing machines wrecked sewing. Why people mistrusted tin cans. What the invention of stainless steel had to do with the military. New research i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ghosts of Caribbean History
Hungry Ghosts is the new novel set in colonial Trinidad by Kevin Jared Hosein. Colin Grant has written a memoir about his Jamaican family. A new art …
3 years, 2 months ago
Climate change and empire building
Haggling with Indian customs officials and presenting a mighty emperor with the distinctly unimpressive gifts of a cheap sword and a broken carriage …
3 years, 2 months ago
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
A new exhibition at the Ashmolean looks at the digs conducted by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete. At the National Theatre Janet McTeer stars as …
3 years, 2 months ago