Making Madness Visible explores how societies have pictured insanity, from medieval fools to modern brain scans. Alvise Sforza Tarabochia shows how these images not only reflect but also shape ideas of madness, defining boundaries between sanity and insanity while questioning their stability across history and culture. For World Mental Health Day 2026, the author guides the reader through five images from their monograph, exploring how madness and mental health have been depicted historically.
The Moment of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians: When Jokes Became Lead Pellets
Marking fifty years since the premiere of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians, Stephen Wagg reflects on the changing role of comedy in modern society. He traces the rise of alternative comedy, the decline of a shared national comedy culture, and the growing influence of comedians in shaping political and social conversations.
Call for an Editor | Continuity and Change
Continuity and Change aims to define a field of historical sociology concerned with long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of past societies. Emphasis is upon studies whose agenda or methodology combines elements from traditional fields such as history, sociology, law, demography, economics or anthropology, or ranges freely between them. There is a strong commitment … Continue reading
