David Sweeney discusses the Netflix Originals Series, The OA, in the context of reincarnation, social mobility and the multiverse, as well as questions that arose following the series. Death is not the end for Prairie Johnson in the Netflix Originals TV series The OA (2016-19); rather it creates the opportunity for her to travel to … Continue reading
Spotlight on Celebrating Black Culture: Free to read journal articles and 30% off selected e-book and print books
As part of our Spotlight on Celebrating Black Culture, enjoy a discount on selected books and free access to a selection of articles from across our journals, available until May 31st 2022. For this month’s Celebrating Black Culture Spotlight, we are focusing on our books, journals and digital collections that highlight different elements of Black … Continue reading
The Enduring and the Ephemeral by Chris Elliott
Few things are as enduring as obelisks. Cleopatra’s Needles have a history that stretches over thousands of years and in 1878, when one of them was shortly to arrive in London, an anonymous correspondent wrote to The Builder magazine expressing the hope that it would remain “let us hope for long centuries,- erect on the … Continue reading
Miserable Conflict and Confusion: The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-22
Erin Kate Scheopner introduces her new book 'Miserable Conflict and Confusion', offering an in-depth analysis of British national press coverage of the ‘Irish question’ throughout 1916-22. The political question known as the ‘Irish question’ was one of the greatest unresolved issues in British politics from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth. The events of … Continue reading
Featured in International Development Planning Review 44.2: The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
New to the blog: “Given that development research is almost exclusively focused on countries in the so-called global South and on Southern issues of inequity as lived by bodies racialised as Black and Brown, the treatment of people who we call ‘southern researchers’ is particularly noteworthy and egregious”- Kamna Patel and Ala’a Shehabi on their article 'The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)', the latest Featured Article from IDPR, available #FreetoRead.
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