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Ice cold in Paris
Suddenly in late February it began to feel like spring. It’s hard to believe quite how cold it was at the beginning of February when I took my final year Special Subject undergraduate students to Paris and Reims for a… Continue reading
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A bas les éditeurs!
By Professor David Stack In danger of being lost amidst the many centenaries, bicentenaries and jubilees modern historians are set to mark in 2012, is a significant 21st birthday. In the fairly recent past what the Americans call the ‘age of… Continue reading
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Pomegranate Queen
by Professor Lindy Grant Pomegranate season – my local Turkish shop sells delicious pomegranates, and I can’t resist them. The fruits look so exotic, especially when there are still traces of pink petal in the gaping navel at the top… Continue reading
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Propaganda and nostalgia for ‘traditional’ sex
By Dan Healey Last week Russia’s most ‘liberal’ metropolis, St Petersburg, passed on first reading a repugnant law that will remind an older generation of British gays and lesbians of Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic ‘Section 28’. The Conservative prime minister’s 1988… Continue reading
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Great Scott?
With the centenary of Captain Scott’s death nearly upon us, David Stack considers Scott’s reputation and his expedition’s scientific legacy, and discusses an unlikely connection with Marie Stopes The winners, it is often said, get to write history. But the losers,… Continue reading
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