For the final episode of their series on the medieval sense of humour, Irina and Mary look at one of the most remarkable women authors of the Middle Ages, Gwerful Mechain. In her poem Cywydd...
For the final episode of their series on the medieval sense of humour, Irina and Mary look at one of the most remarkable women authors of the Middle Ages, Gwerful Mechain. In her poem Cywydd...
Masud Khan was a protégé of D.W. Winnicott and the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also much else besides. In this unforgettable piece from 2001, Wynne Godley describes his baffling and disastrous...
The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.
In the final episode of Human Conditions, Brent and Adam turn to Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, a collection of prose with exceptional relevance to contemporary grassroots politics. Like Du Bois, Césaire...
In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara Dabhoiwala...
Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting' and the significance of women reading in her novels in this extract from their podcast series 'On Satire'.
Tom Crewe talks about his debut novel, The New Life, which presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis, and their collaboration on a revolutionary...
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