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I’ve made my name mostly as a Woody Guthrie scholar. Around the time of the Guthrie centenary in 2012, I became increasingly aware of references to Guthrie as ‘the father of American protest music’...
With the pandemic still looming above us, thoughts of passing away may have crossed your mind repeatedly over the last while. Those thoughts, revolving around a kernel of inert fear, most likely did not...
How do workers react to the undermining of their means of livelihood? What are the political consequences of rising unemployment and inequality? In recent years, the expansion of right-wing movements...
That wildlife is in trouble all around the globe is old news. Less well known is the fact that the UK is a country suffering among the most serious declines in plant and animal populations. Britain...
There are a lot of questions about the validity of IQ tests and the nature of ‘intelligence’. Ken Richardson, author of Understanding Intelligence tries to tackle the problem at the heart of the subject of intelligence by putting intelligence in the context of living functions.
This is not a book about William the Conqueror. It is a book about the world into which William was born, in which he grew up, parts of which he conquered, and which he left behind upon his death. This...
There is no shortage of proposals to address society’s most pressing problems—poverty, health, urban infrastructure, climate change, and many others. These propositions often involve single-handed...
In recent years, the combined influence of global history and decolonial movements has reinforced the demand that historians must reflect upon their positionality, including, of course, their relationship...
In our new book, Cities in a Sunburnt Country, we consider how Australians have met the challenges posed by the need to provide safe water in the world’s driest inhabited continent and sewerage systems...
Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 439/16, f. 74r (detail): John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. Image courtesy of The Rosenbach, Philadelphia.
On 14 May Boris Johnson announced that preparations have been made to ship 50 ‘illegal’ immigrants from the UK to Rwanda, a country to which they have no connection. This is a cruel and baffling piece...
Peter Brook’s The Empty Space famously begins, I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that...
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