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Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of Frank Ramsey who died in 1930 aged 27, but not before doing work that changed the course of philosophy, logic, m…
5 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan from Goldsmiths, University of London is using VR to do everything from training GPs not to overprescribe ant…
5 years, 10 months ago
Anne Enright + the value of gossip
The Irish novelist Anne Enright talks to Laurence Scott about her new book Actress and being the inaugural Irish laureate, plus a discussion of gossi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Vis…
5 years, 10 months ago
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets …
5 years, 10 months ago
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) brought to life a large comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gor…
5 years, 10 months ago
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a nurse who survived the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
In Rwa…
5 years, 10 months ago
How archictecture shapes society
Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Edwin Heathcote discuss ideals made concrete in an event chaired by Anne McElvoy…
5 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Everything to Everybody - Shakespeare for the people
Islam Issa hears from actor Adrian Lester and Professor Ewan Fernie about a project that will revive the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library. Fou…
5 years, 10 months ago
Japan Now 2020
Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, and Yukiko Motoya, look at women's roles in Japanese culture today plus the Japanese view of English-language literature w…
5 years, 10 months ago