The building blocks of ornithology
By Henry McGhie Museum collections are dominated by vast collections of natural history specimens—pinned insects in glass-topped drawers, shells, plants pressed on herbarium sheets, and...Read More
Halloween in Hollywood: five films for All Hallows’ Eve
Andrew Dix, Loughborough University “Few holidays have a cinematic potential that equals Halloween’s,” wrote the American cultural critic David J. Skal. For over a century...Read More
College communities abroad - Q&A with Liam Chambers and Thomas O'Connor
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Catholic communities in Protestant states Britain and the Netherlands c.1570–1720 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016)....Read More
Excerpt from Heidi Safia Mirza’s foreword
Christy Kulz's important and timely book is about the inner workings of the academy school system. In what she so aptly calls Factories for Learning...Read More
The Cruel Dream of Dreamfields Academy: Les Back
“You can’t talk about schools without talking about cities,” James Baldwin once commented, “and the cities are in the hands of the financiers, the cities...Read More
Dreamfields is the tip of a very chilling iceberg: Diane Reay
Factories for Learning is a powerful indictment of a contemporary educational system that holds up the myth of meritocracy whilst subjecting black and white children...Read More
Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and afterlives
Guest post by Amber Regis. At death, we enter myth—our lives and work become the subject of stories told by others. Charlotte Brontë was...Read More
Q&A with Declan Long, author of Ghost-haunted land
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? The book crosses between different fields: between the study of contemporary art, and writing...Read More
Q&A with Lara Thompson, author of Film Light
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? L'Attrait de la lumière (2010) by Jacques Aumont – small, essential, evocative - desperately...Read More
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most? That’s a difficult question to answer, as very little work has been conducted to...Read More