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Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Ian McEwan's new novel Lessons sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the wall in Berlin. Researcher an…
3 years, 7 months ago
Immortality
Karel Čapek's 1922 play The Makropulos Affair about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš J…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
A dig at Lindisfarne this September aims to find out more about the early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings. New Generation Thinker David Petts fr…
3 years, 7 months ago
New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?
Christopher Columbus spoke to lots of people: his family and kin in Genova, merchants in Venice, royalty in Madrid, the crew of his ship, not to ment…
3 years, 7 months ago
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
Created in a natural landscape feature, a conclave hillside, the Hollywood Bowl had already hosted religious services before its stage arrived. In 19…
3 years, 7 months ago
1922: The Lincoln Memorial
Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial is a neoclassical temple built to honour the 16th president of the United States. Lisa Mullen discovers why A…
3 years, 7 months ago
Prison Break
Prison breaks loom large in both literature and pop culture. But how should we evaluate them ethically? New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks wh…
3 years, 8 months ago
Egyptian Satire
Dina Rezk from the University of Reading looks at politics and the role of humour as she profiles Bassem Youssef, “the Jon Stewart of Egyptian satire…
3 years, 8 months ago
Pogroms and Prejudice
New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to de…
3 years, 8 months ago
Facing Facts
Earlier periods of history have seen more people with scarring to their faces from duelling injuries and infectious diseases but what stopped this le…
3 years, 8 months ago