Something strange and wonderful happens if you read every novel Drabble wrote between 1963 and 1980, in sequence, one...
83 months ago

'All I can offer is my years of lived experience,' Lynsey Hanley wrote at the end of Estates: An Intimate History (2007).
98 months ago

It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that my Conservative-voting mother ever caused me real embarrassment.
448 months ago

Books by women including Alexandra Shepard, Jane Humphries, Lisa Mckenzie, Carolyn Steedman and Pat Thane have changed our understanding of working-class life.
104 months ago

This month, she picks out Ladivine, an unsettling masterpiece from the precociously talented French writer Marie NDiaye.
17 months ago

“You find nothing in the Archive but stories caught half way through: the middle of things; discontinuities.” –Carolyn Steedman1. In Strange But True,...
1 month ago

Jyn Erso searches the Imperial archives for the Death Star plans in Rogue One with no catalogue, no file name, and no data.
58 months ago

A Canadian-American, Professor Davis helped pioneer the genres of cultural and micro-history. Specialising in early modern period, she remained active in the...
10 months ago

Books define the life of Peter Stallybrass, an English professor who has retired after 30 years at Penn, known for his History of Material Texts workshop.
77 months ago

Professor David Hardiman and Professor Carolyn Steedman retired on 31st December 2013 and each is now an Emeritus Professor of the Department.
126 months ago