A Canadian-American, Professor Davis helped pioneer the genres of cultural and micro-history. Specialising in early modern period, she remained active in the...
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A Professor of History at the University of Warwick is one of only 38 academics to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting.
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Numerology, myth, and memory converged in Inga Somdyala's exhibition “Adamah,” which included paintings; small and large flags made with soil, ocher, clay, and...
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Essays on Writing, Autobiography and History by Carolyn Steedman. Rivers Oram, 224 pp., £22, June 1992, 1 85489 021 2
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The current issue of Social Research is based not on a special theme but rather on the conviction that words matter, books and ideas...
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The musical version of little orphan Annie – as distinct from her original, cartoon incarnation – was born a fully formed ten-year-old in...
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This is an explosive family memoir but the remarkable stories are also an exploration of the effect Thatcherism had on Britain.
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What do we love about seeing children perform? And how do their performances shape our understanding of childhood?
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“Our undergraduates – and postgraduate students as well – seem mainly not to be avid readers,” says Jo Brewis, professor of organisation and...
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Lorna Sage, professor of English at the University of East Anglia, has written an almost unbearably eloquent memoir of the unlikely childhood and adolescence...
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