Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in genre film by Kinga Földváry This book started out as a dilemma, as I suppose many books do, with a simple question, yet one that seemed to present... READ MORE
Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020
By Jonathan Bolton Author of The Blunt Affair: Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980-89 In writing a book about the cultural response to the Blunt Affair in the 1980s,... READ MORE
Monday, 14 Dec 2020
For 30 years Len Grant has documented the changing face of Manchester and Salford. Through his photography, writing and, most recently, his sketches, he’s told stories of significant regeneration... READ MORE
Tuesday, 8 Dec 2020
Christopher Ivic takes us back 400 years, to a time when no real or imagined ‘UK’ existed. The accession of Scottish King James VI and I to the English throne in 1603 dramatically changed the... READ MORE
Friday, 27 Nov 2020
‘What are the best tattoos on page or screen?’ With our shared interest in detective narratives it was never going to be a quick answer to that question. Moving from Cape Fear, Memento to A... READ MORE
Tuesday, 10 Nov 2020
The 2016 campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” declared that all was not right with current America. And for most people that was a correct assessment after 1980. According to economists... READ MORE
Thursday, 5 Nov 2020
Free ebooks, author video’s, podcasts, open content… Here’s a brief look back at our Halloween celebrations in 2020. “Some wounds do not close” Listen to @saraWasson_1 ‘s... READ MORE
Friday, 30 Oct 2020
Online book launch: 40 minute interview on the podcast “Tel Aviv Review” on TLV1 https://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/2020/09/21/ending-wars-peacefully/ Two published blog posts LSE Int’l... READ MORE
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020
By David Whyte The same model of the corporation that was central to colonialism and slavery hundreds of years ago is still thriving, writes David Whyte. And now its threatening all life on Earth. The... READ MORE
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2020
1. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? A fresh perspective on the work and career of the celebrated, sometimes controversial, and sometimes misunderstood... READ MORE
Monday, 21 Sep 2020