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Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region
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Ruthless mercenaries who happened to be very good at PR or a dynamic force in Medieval European...
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Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Ian McEwan's new novel Lessons sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile...
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Karel Čapek's 1922 play The Makropulos Affair about a famous singer who has lived for over 300...
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The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
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What language did Columbus speak?
Christopher Columbus spoke to lots of people: his family and kin in Genova, merchants in Venice,...
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Created in a natural landscape feature, a conclave hillside, the Hollywood Bowl had already...
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Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial is a neoclassical temple built to honour the 16th...
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Prison breaks loom large in both literature and pop culture. But how should we evaluate them...
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Dina Rezk from the University of Reading looks at politics and the role of humour as she profiles...
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New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in...
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Earlier periods of history have seen more people with scarring to their faces from duelling...
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New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter explores how large dam projects continue to form reservoirs...
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Robert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North came out in the same year...
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From health fads, to Virginia Woolf having a premonition of the microwave, New Generation Thinker...
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Jade Halbert lectures in fashion, but has never done any sewing. She swaps pen and paper for...
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Advances in robotics and virtual reality are giving us ever more 'realistic' ways of representing...
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Coming Out Crip and Acts of Care
This Essay tells a story of political marches and everyday acts of radical care; of sledgehammers...
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