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Three decades ago, I came across an old report on the state of legal education in the colonies of the British Empire. I learned from the report that there were very few law schools in most of the empire. However, colonial India had a highly developed system of legal education. In fact, there were more […]
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I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in the archives in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the more one puzzle came to dominate my research: why did schools matter so […]
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In 1618, the parish clerk of St Botolph’s Aldgate, in London, wrote a detailed account of a wedding he had just witnessed, ‘because we never had the like’ before. What was so unusual about this marriage was that the groom was congenitally deaf, and used sign language instead of speech to make his vows. That […]
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When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture changes on land. Cities expand, forests disappear, industries grow, and transportation networks spread across continents. Yet throughout the years I spent researching and writing Earth’s Amphibious Transformation, I became increasingly […]
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Buying furniture from IKEA often feels like a metaphor for European integration. The pieces arrive separately, the instructions are never quite as straightforward as they seem, and assembling the final product requires patience, compromise, and occasional frustration. The European Union has often been built in much the same way-not according to a single grand design, […]
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Just two years ago, many political elites and policy experts in the United States and other Western countries concluded that the Chinese model of development had failed as China’s economic growth faltered amid the real estate crisis, mounting local government debt, and rising youth unemployment. They denounced Xi Jinping’s concentration of autocratic power, his crackdowns […]
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In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging from unprovoked aggression to gloomy withdrawal. His son – my father – is a committed Christian, who believes that every human soul will live forever. […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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