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What would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written...
Two frustrations prompted me to write this book. The first was with the absence of book-length analysis of the deep historical roots of the field of international political economy (IPE) in the pre-1945...
Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions...
Image Description: The front page of a 1937 edition of Die Sirene, the monthly magazine for the Nazi Reichsluftschutzbund (or Reich Air Protection League). The man on the front sports the Volksgasmaske, or “People’s Gas Mask.” While most technical experts knew that the mass-produced mask offered little protection against chemical weapons, the captions boast of its technical specifications and claim that: “Every German can feel safe under the gas mask!”
In October 2019, unprecedented mobilizations in Chile took the world by surprise. An outburst of protests plunged the most stable democracy in Latin America into its most profound social and political...
The HBO series Game of Thrones is perhaps the most recent expression of the general view that the Middle Ages were rape-prone. Humiliation and exploitation of female (and male) characters repeatedly come...
I spent the dark and snowy winter months that began 2021 under lockdown in my mother’s house in rural Wales. My mother, however, was not there: she, suffering from Alzheimer’s, was confined in a care...
Marine biodiversity loss is one of the biggest and most urgent environmental problems the planet is facing. Despite global and national policy calls for marine conservation and the development of legal...
A key goal of international development in education One of the most important challenges faced by international development agencies, NGOs and government stakeholders in education today concerns the...
Scholars of the ancient world are, I think, often satisfied with their antique interests. They study texts and inscriptions, languages, peoples, and entire civilizations, many of which are otherwise extinct...
Tinkler Ducket was expelled from the University of Cambridge in March 1739, being found guilty of ‘the very serious crime of atheism’. The young don’s case had been the subject of a hearing before...
The cover of Hegel and the Representative Constitution features Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1813 painting The Morning because it reflects the mood in contemporary ‘Germany’, symbolising the kind of...
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