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November 24, 2024
The Gravity of Feathers
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ l…
November 22, 2024
Mussolini's Nation-Empire
With Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge UP, 2017), Roberta Pergher transforms our unde…
November 22, 2024
Monstrous Fantasies
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Leila Norako asks w…
November 22, 2024
The English Table
The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Jill Norman is a delectable journey through the culinary history of England, from anc…
November 22, 2024
Pistols in St Paul's
On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scient…
November 20, 2024
Shakespeare's Sisters
In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renai…
November 20, 2024
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in nineteen…
November 20, 2024
Venice
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites o…
November 19, 2024
Radical Acts
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literatu…
November 16, 2024
Historical Turns
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in …
November 16, 2024
Protecting Democracy in Europe
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of l…
November 15, 2024
The War People
In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniels uses the tra…
November 15, 2024
Raised to Obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly e…
November 14, 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising r…
November 12, 2024
Women on Philosophy of Art
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. …
November 11, 2024
The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898
Dr. Conor McCabe is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast. He is the author of numerous policy and research report…
November 8, 2024
Islamophobia, France and Muslim Political Subjectivity
In this interview, recorded for Islamophobia Awareness Month, Hizer Mir and Chella Ward talk to Kawtar Najib and Rayan Freschi about Islamophobia in F…
November 6, 2024
Dante's Education
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent i…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 4, 2024
Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brady provides an insider’s look at the power struggle…