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1922: Nanook of the North
Robert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North came out in the same year as the BBC was founded. Continuing our series explor…
3 years, 4 months ago
1922: Leisure and the body
A new craze for body building and that distinctive figure of the 20th century, the hobbyist, are the topic of conversation as we continue our series …
3 years, 4 months ago
1922: Food
From health fads, to Virginia Woolf having a premonition of the microwave, New Generation Thinker John Gallagher is joined by food historians Annie G…
3 years, 5 months ago
Not Quite Jean Muir
Jade Halbert lectures in fashion, but has never done any sewing. She swaps pen and paper for needle and thread to create a dress from a Jean Muir pat…
3 years, 5 months ago
Tudor Virtual Reality
Advances in robotics and virtual reality are giving us ever more 'realistic' ways of representing the world, but the quest for vivid visualisation is…
3 years, 5 months ago
Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
This Essay tells a story of political marches and everyday acts of radical care; of sledgehammers and bags of rice; of the struggles for justice wage…
3 years, 5 months ago
Digging Deep
There is fascinating evidence that 5,000 years ago, people living in Britain and Ireland had a deep and meaningful relationship with the underworld s…
3 years, 5 months ago
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
When Tom Smith sets out to research allegations of racism in Berlin’s club scene, he finds himself face to face with his own past in techno’s birthpl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
A nurse who survived the genocide in 1994 against the Tutsi in Rwanda has written a testimony which New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge has translate…
3 years, 5 months ago
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) brought to life a large comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gor…
3 years, 5 months ago