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The impetus for us editing this volume came from two sources. One was the sense that Elizabeth Webby’s The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2001), a fine work for its era, needed updating,...
For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience...
“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started...
This blog is the third in a series of five posts that reflect on contributions made to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, published by Cambridge...
A few years ago after finishing a study about the collecting of wild animal skins in Victorian Britain, I felt disturbingly empty—perhaps even a bit lost. I wondered what now could offer me a sense...
What do we hope to become in a career or over multiple careers in a lifetime? What do we want to be known for? What mark do we aspire to make, however large or small? Who, if anyone, do we seek to inspire? In...
I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640,...
Although feedback plays an increasingly important role in everyday life as well as in teaching and learning, its implementation in the classroom is rather limited. Many teachers still believe that grades...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captivates our attention, while we fear that worse is coming. China threatens Taiwan, Iran almost certainly will become a nuclear power before...
Why do people have children? How do their hopes about first-time parenthood match up with or differ from the reality of parenthood? And what does it mean to be part of a group of people for whom having...
While the electrification of Ireland’s urban spaces did not begin in earnest until 1929 – and indeed, rurally some two decades later in 1946 – electricity, or rather, the electronic, now operates...
“Carpe diem” is one of the most recognisable Latin phrases: in our day it is a popular slogan on T-shirts; millions know the words through the movie Dead Poets Society, in which the actor Robin Williams...
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