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Michelangelo and Western 'Ways of Seeing'
Florence can claim to have been the beating heart of the renaissance, home to names familiar even to those who know little about the...


'Bake-Off soothes White Fright'...or how the media creates the 'integration' myth
In a recent Panorama programme, the team returned to Blackburn ten years after airing ‘White Fright’, a discussion about the...


Patriarchy withers on the (Sarah) Vine...
Sarah Vine, columnist for the Daily Mail, is scathing about the recent ‘revelations’ regarding politicians and their sexual...


Daft as a Brush...democracy and the hunt
It’s a 0630hrs crisp autumnal morning in the rural idyll of Garthorpe in the Leicestershire countryside. I’m bleary-eyed, sipping on...


Tales from the Cold War
It’s a late summer evening in 1986. A fast motorbike sprints down the road, parallel with a military runway. The rider looks right,...


Skye is NOT the limit: A response to FAKE NEWS by BBC travel correspondent Simon Caulder
Admittedly, I'm a bit grumpy at six o'clock in the morning, imbibing early-morning caffeine and peering bleary-eyed at the BBC news, but...


The gift of civilisation: how imperial Britons saw their mission in India
The politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay imagined, in 1840, the fall of a great empire. He conjured a future “when some...


Homo Neanderthalensis, The Isle of Skye, and Beeston (Nottingham): 50,000 years of food culture.
Somewhere in Europe, some 50,000 years ago, a group of twenty or so Neanderthals huddle together in a cave, generating a little warmth...


A Brief History of God
Faith /feɪθ/…Strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof. Oxford English Dictionary...


The End of Nationalism - The final lesson of Empire?
In 1840, the British politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay asked his readers to imagine the fall of a great empire. Macaulay...
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