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UK Election Special: The Broken State
For the second episode of our series on the UK election, James Butler is joined by Sam Freedman to talk about the enormous challenges facing the next…
1 year, 9 months ago
UK Election Special: Climate
In the first in a series of episodes on the UK general election, James Butler is joined by Ann Pettifor and Adrienne Buller to discuss climate policy…
1 year, 10 months ago
What was the Venetian ghetto?
From the ghetto's creation in 1516 until its dissolution at the end of the 18th century, Jews in Venice were confined to a district enclosed by canal…
1 year, 10 months ago
Forecasting D-Day
The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not too m…
1 year, 10 months ago
On J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard’s life and work contains many incongruities, outraging the Daily Mail and being offered a CBE (which he rejected), and variously appeali…
1 year, 10 months ago
On Festac ’77
Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed Festac ’77, a global celebration of Black and African art that she described as ‘the Olympics, plus a Bien…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rebecca Solnit: In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980, but the city she used to know is fast disappearing, ‘fully annexed’, as she puts it, by the tec…
1 year, 11 months ago
Women in Philosophy
The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western ph…
1 year, 11 months ago
Unspeakable Acts
James Pratt and John Smith were the last men hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by nosy landlords who later petit…
1 year, 11 months ago
Where does culture come from?
The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more capacious history. In the …
1 year, 11 months ago