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Practising Colonial Medicine
The role of the Colonial Medical Service – the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories – goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. “Practising Colonial Medicine”…
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Quality TV
In his seminal book “Television’s Second Golden Age”, Robert Thompson described quality TV as ‘best defined by what it is not’: ‘it is not “regular” TV’. Audacious maybe, but his…
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable in her life; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s political officers, moves…
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Science Fiction in India
Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene. Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor Mimi Mondal is…
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Seeing the Elephant
Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to “see the elephant”—soldier talk for going into…
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Shakespeare: The Sonnets
The appearance in 1609 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is cloaked in mystery and controversy, while the poems themselves are masterpieces of silence and deception. The intervening 4 centuries have done little…
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Shaping the Surface
Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through the lens of surface, materiality and decoration.Picking up on a trait that art historian Nikolaus Pevsner first identified as…
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So When Are You Having Kids
A new kind of family planning book for the millennial and Gen Z generations, offering inclusive guidance on the realities of parenthood“How much does it cost to have kids? How…
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Soviet Theatre during the Thaw
The era known as the Thaw (1953-64) was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union. It was a time when the legacy of Stalin unravelled, when brief…
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Strides
Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever–author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny–brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life.From Pheidippides,…
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Students for a Democratic Society
The History of SDS as You’ve Never Seen It BeforeIn 1962 at a United Auto Workers’ camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared…
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Tanzania’s Land Rush
After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors’ rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This ‘land rush’ was a marker…