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Slave Stories: Aesop and Walter Crane
In 1887 the influential arts-and-crafts book illustrator Walter Crane published The Baby's Own Aesop, bringing the homespun wisdom of ancient Gr…
7 years, 11 months ago
Palace, Park and Square: St James's and the Birth of the West End
Based on new research into the origins of St. James's, Simon Thurley looks into the ingredients that went into making a court quarter there and …
7 years, 11 months ago
Nationalist Parties
Between 1886 and 1914, British politics was dominated by the Irish Question, and the Irish nationalist party exerted considerable pressure on British…
7 years, 11 months ago
Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side in Painting
FULBRIGHT LECTURE
What's in a shadow? Danger and death? Or the vital life-force of whatever object casts it? Are shadows seductive nothings or t…
7 years, 11 months ago
Dealing with Sex Abuse: How Does the Family Court Assess Risk?
Sexual abuse is always an abuse of power. It can be opportunistic or premeditated; furtive intra-familial abuse or acts shared online. It can be mult…
7 years, 11 months ago
Training in Violence: An Essay in Military Hazing
How have the British and American armed forces been taught to fight and kill in conflicts from 1914 to the present? What role have psychology and tec…
7 years, 11 months ago
Elementary Particles and Their Interactions
Matter consists of a mêlée of elementary particles. There are protons and neutrons, made up of quarks, and many other short-lived massive particles. …
8 years ago
Shakespeare's Politics
It is well known that Shakespeare lived in an age of monarchy and wrote powerfully in his English history plays about the duties of the sovereign.
In…
8 years ago
The 19th Century Craze for Stereoscopic Photography
Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought st…
8 years ago
Asthma and Chronic Airways Disease
Asthma, an intermittent disease, is the commonest lung disease in the UK. The second is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), now the 4th lea…
8 years ago