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Victorian streets
Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one? It's possible that there's a gap between the realities of …
3 years, 10 months ago
The Wolfson Prize 2022
Witches, statues, God's body, the Ottomans, medieval church going and seventeenth century England as a "devil land" are the topics explored in this y…
3 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities
Covert queer communities are examined as Naomi Paxton is joined by Dr Tom Hulme and Dr Ting Guo.
Tom Hulme is senior lecturer in the School of History…
3 years, 10 months ago
Get Carter
he film starring Michael Caine was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of gangsters and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick T…
3 years, 10 months ago
Amia Srinivasan and Philosophical Genealogy
In Amia Srinivasan's book The Right To Sex she discusses some of the most hotly controversial topics of today: sex work, pornography, the nature of s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Oceans and the Sea
Smugglers, refugees, trade and melting ice and polar exploration are part of the conversation as Rana Mitter is joined in the BBC tent at the Hay Fes…
3 years, 10 months ago
New Generation Thinkers: Contesting an Alphabet
Images of Cyril and Methodios adorn libraries, universities, cathedrals and passport pages in Slavonic speaking countries from Bulgaria to Russia, No…
3 years, 11 months ago
New Generation Thinkers: The Paradox of Ecological Art
Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a melting glacier and transported to a gallery, reforesting…
3 years, 11 months ago
New Generation Thinkers: Ruffs in Jamestown
The discovery of goffering irons, the tools used to shape ruffs, by an archaeological dig in North America, gives us clues about the way the first En…
3 years, 11 months ago
Tudor families
Henry VIII from a female perspective is on offer at the Globe Theatre this summer in a new adaptation of the play written by Shakespeare and John Fle…
3 years, 11 months ago