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Illustration from the “Hobo” News 2:2, May 1916, p.14. From St Louis Public Library, scan taken by Owen Clayton. Travelling wanderers, whether called vagabonds, tramps, hobos or something else,...
Pluralism is a kind of buzzword across much of the academic landscape, but is it clear what we mean by it or what a pluralistic approach to science or any branch of inquiry entails? Why should we...
The ancient Greeks have a reputation for being proudly, purely monolingual: they considered their own language so perfect that they had no need to learn anyone else’s. But was that really true? A new...
Histories of neutrality and collaboration in the Second World War tend to focus on Europe. Yet, considering these dynamics in Asia is essential to understand the conflict as a truly global event. My book...
“Bind me, to keep me upright at the mast, wound round with rope. If I beseech you and command you to set me free, you must increase my bonds and chain me even tighter.”[1] With these words to his...
In a 2014 conversation in Chicago, Art Spiegelman summarized his understanding of the path taken by comics, once known primarily as cheap and popular entertainment: “[W]hen something is no longer a...
Reproduced by kind permission of Glenda Munro, all rights reserved. In 1919 and 1920, a number of British ports suffered large-scale race riots as mobs targeted non-white men of various ethnicities....
In March 2023, Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police found the organisation to be, among other things, ‘institutionally sexist and misogynistic.’ A year earlier, a report on officers...
Its been a busy six months since the launch of the UNU-WIDER-CUP Elements series in Development Economics in November 2022. Three titles have been published, the first was The 1918–20 influenza...
Human aging is a remarkable process which takes us on a path through our lives often without notice. There are many losses of function that can occur with aging. What can we do to manage these declines...
The evil moneylender exploiting the vulnerable borrower is a recurring genre in popular fiction. Oliver Twist depicts moneylenders as crooked gangsters operating illegal businesses and luring impoverished...
Sophisticated legal systems compete with each other at a variety of levels. The prevalence of choice of law and choice of forum clauses favouring one state and its laws necessarily means its courts will...
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