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Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

Stevenson's swashbuckling Jacobite set novel has been translated into a play which is touring...

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Galatea and Shakespeare

John Lyly's play Galatea, first recorded in 1588, inspired Shakespeare to write As You Like It...

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Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

The singers Enrico Caruso and Elsie Houston, a new opera at ENO and links between musical and...

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Land and soil politics

From nature as "a living whole" in the ideas of Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt to the "Blood...

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Ginger Rogers

‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels’ said cartoonist...

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Children of the Waters

An ancient Japanese Buddhist ritual which involves a red baby bib, a small statue and water, has...

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Pirates

From the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Hook, to Ottoman corsairs, Henry Avery, Mary Read and...

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Revolutionary free speech

"Cancel culture" is used to describe debates which touch on freedom of expression today but what...

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Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

The trial of sisters begging on the streets of South London led to donations sent in by Victorian...

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Religion and Science

Nicholas Spencer, Emily Qureshi-Hurst and Philip Ball join Christopher Harding for a conversation...

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New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld

Customs officers raided the London bookshop Gay’s the Word on April 10th 1984 and seized 144...

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A family of witches

An 8 year old who condemns his own mother to execution in 1582: New Generation Thinker Emma...

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The Rossettis and Walter Pater

What is that people hate about the Pre-Raphaelites? From the 19th century to the present day...

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Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023

From lessons in civility learnt playing French board game to the value of babbling by babies in...

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Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

The noisy Victorian world annoyed the mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage,...

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East Germany

Katja Hoyer and Karen Leeder join Anne McElvoy to discuss new histories of East Germany, stories...

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Translating Cultures

Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau join Rana...

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The culture of Albania

Lea Ypi, author of a memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, joins Matthew...

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New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines

What ethical questions arise from new human-machine relations as we are increasingly asked, as...

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Busking and Billy Waters

Billy Waters became a celebrity in early 19th century London as a talented street performer. New...

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