History

Peter Leese: How We See a Migrant Memory

Peter Leese is the co-editor of Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces, recently published by Liverpool University Press. Here, he writes of two exhibitions at the Venice Biennale that complement his work as a cultural historian in expanding the migration studies debate. A vast dark room. Two parallel strip lights outline the rectangle … Continue reading

History, Political History

British Society in Crisis by Neville Kirk

Britain experienced continual crises from the 1970s to Brexit in 2016. Neville Kirk's new publication British Society and its Three Crises: From 1970s Globalisation, to the Financial Crash of 2007-8 and the onset of Brexit in 2016 is an innovative and comprehensive study which pays special attention to three combined crises: the development of neo-liberal … Continue reading