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New Generation Thinkers: Walking with the ghosts of the Durham coalfield
Comrade or "marra" in North East dialect, and the "dharma" or the way - were put together in a portmanteau word by poet Bill Martin (1925-2010). Poet…
4 years ago
Teaching and Inspiration
Anna Barbauld's Lessons for Children (1778-79) set off a new conversational style in books aimed at teaching children. She was just one of the female…
4 years ago
Shakespeare, history, pathology and dissonant sound
The first pathologist in English writing? Andrea Smith looks at the figure of Warwick in Shakespeare's Henry VI. Owen Horsley is directing a new prod…
4 years ago
New Thinking: Preserving Our Heritage
A collection of knitting patterns held in Southampton, an archive of Victorian greeting cards in Manchester, information about music hall and pantomi…
4 years ago
Housework
Who's doing the cleaning and looking after the kids? Are we all shouldering an equal share of the domestic burden and if not, why not? Matthew Sweet…
4 years ago
Ships and History
What nationalities served in the British navy of the 18th century and what difference did peacetime and wartime conditions have on the make-up of cre…
4 years ago
Grief
Archaeological remains, Jewish rituals, music, memento mori and the construction of elaborately carved tombs: Matthew Sweet discusses grief and the …
4 years ago
China: world politics, ink art & insomnia
Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is a long time scholar of China. In his new book, The Avoidable War, he argues that it is cultural misun…
4 years ago
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
Venanzio Rauzzini, Fanny Burney, and Mr Foote are figures who come up in today's Free Thinking discussion as the hit period drama Bridgerton returns …
4 years ago
New Generation Thinkers 2022
From Shakespearian writing and Tudor sound to the power of song, ideas about stupidity to sea monsters and the soil - the ten academics working at UK…
4 years ago