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Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
From clues in paintings to colonial trade to letters sent between Australia and England; the links between a Durham based poet and India to the femal…
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Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
Dinah Mulock Craik achieved fame and fortune as the author of the 1856 bestselling novel John Halifax, Gentleman. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker…
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New Thinking: what do we learn from census stats?
Everyday lives from the past are often hard to reconstruct. As we prepare for the Census 2021, what stories can we tell from past censuses and the re…
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard
Edogawa Rampo's stories give us a Japanese version of Sherlock Holmes. New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding traces the way detective fiction ch…
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Edward Said's thinking
Orientalism was his book, published in 1978, which outlined Said's view that imperialism and a romanticised version of Arab Culture clouded the way t…
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The Vietnam Paris connection
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its follow-up takes the lead character to Parisian salons and an underw…
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New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk
Mars is the focus of current space exploration but how far back does this interest go? Dr Joshua Nall tells Seb Falk about the Mars globe held at the…
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Speech, Voice, Accents and AI Free Thinking
From prejudice against accents to early attempts to create an artificial voice - Matthew Sweet is joined by the academics Sadie Ryan, Allison Koeneck…
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Breakdown: Horatio Clare, Stevie Smith
Paranoia, the collateral damage on his family and the investigations he makes into drugs used to treat such a breakdown: Horatio Clare talks to Laure…
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New Thinking: Girls
The films Cuties and Rocks present a contemporary image of girlhood. What do they tell us about what it is to be a girl and to negotiate growing up? …
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