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Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes
Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes. How does the process differ if your subject is alive, if t…
5 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: African Europeans; Fidel Castro & African leaders; WEB Du Bois
From Roman emperor Septimius Severus to Senegal's Signares to the ten days in Harlem that Fidel Castro used to link up with African leaders at the UN…
5 years, 6 months ago
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
New critical biographies of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation for National Poetry Day about o…
5 years, 6 months ago
Cows in culture and soil
From Cuyp's paintings, to Wordsworth's wanderings to modern dairy management and soil fertility via Victorian Industrial farming and talking Swiss sa…
5 years, 6 months ago
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020
The tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, having a Jamaican Welsh identity, the idea of freedom and anti-colonial resistance, the alarming rise of y…
5 years, 6 months ago
Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures
Edmund Fawcett's latest book focuses on the historic and contemporary conflicts in Conservatism. He describes how the constant tensions within the Co…
5 years, 7 months ago
New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
How German argument differs from English, the links between Arabic and Chinese and different versions of The 1001 Nights to the use of slang and mult…
5 years, 7 months ago
Get Carter
The film starring Michael Caine was adapted from a 1970 Ted Lewis novel set in an underworld of gangsters and teenage pornography. Mike Hodges, Nick …
5 years, 7 months ago
Family ties and reshaping history
From the influential part played by Sikh queens, through the ties of marriage and religion which helped shape the Western world, back to the links be…
5 years, 7 months ago
New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
From fancy dress parties using native American head-dresses to the continuing significance of Wampum belts made of shells - how do particular objects…
5 years, 7 months ago