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Richard Vinen and the History of Ordinary Compulsion
A historian at King's College London has built a career on the parts of the recent past that everyone lived through and nobody mythologised: conscription, Thatcherism, occupation, 1968.
The Scholar Who Said No to a Very Good Story: April DeConick and the Gospel of Judas
In 2006 the world was told that a lost gospel made Judas a hero. A professor at Rice University read the Coptic and said it did the opposite. A case study in how popular history gets corrected.
Dana Polan and the Case for Taking Television Seriously Early
A cinema studies professor at NYU has spent four decades writing about the things film scholarship had not yet decided were worth writing about: paranoia in 1940s Hollywood, The Sopranos, and a cookery programme from 1963.
Made by Migrants - Ben Uri and the Émigré Roots of Modern British Art
The story British art tells about itself tends to run through native genius: Turner's light, Constable's fields, the Bloomsbury painters at their easels. It is a comforting story and an incomplete one
The Skull, the Bubble and the Guttering Candle - How to Read a Dutch Vanitas Still Life
A skull grins out of the shadows. A candle sends up its last thread of smoke. A glass lies on its side with the wine long gone. To a prosperous household in seventeenth-century Holland, a picture like
Hans Litten: The Lawyer Who Put Hitler in the Witness Box
In May 1931 a young Berlin barrister subpoenaed Adolf Hitler and questioned him for three hours. Hitler never forgave it. The story of Hans Litten, and why it is being retold now.
The Gallery That Invented the Gallery - Dulwich, John Soane and a King's Lost Collection
Before Dulwich, looking at great paintings in England usually required an introduction, a private appointment, or the luck of being born into the right family. Pictures lived in country houses and tow
Sir John Soane's Museum - The House That Cannot Change
Most houses that last do so by changing. They are extended, subdivided, restored and handed from one owner to the next, each leaving a mark. The tall terraced house on the north side of Lincoln's Inn
An Indian Museum Has Taken Over Christie's, and It Is Not Selling Anything
Christie's King Street is showing The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection until 21 August, and the unusual thing about it is the price list. There isn't one. The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art,
Richard Vinen and the History of Ordinary Compulsion
A historian at King's College London has built a career on the parts of the recent past that everyone lived through and nobody mythologised: conscription, Thatcherism, occupation, 1968.
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A historian at King's College London has built a career on the parts of the recent past that everyone lived through and nobody mythologised: conscription, Thatcherism, occupation, 1968.
The Scholar Who Said No to a Very Good Story: April DeConick and the Gospel of Judas
In 2006 the world was told that a lost gospel made Judas a hero. A professor at Rice University read the Coptic and said it did the opposite. A case study in how popular history gets corrected.
Dana Polan and the Case for Taking Television Seriously Early
A cinema studies professor at NYU has spent four decades writing about the things film scholarship had not yet decided were worth writing about: paranoia in 1940s Hollywood, The Sopranos, and a cookery programme from 1963.
Made by Migrants - Ben Uri and the Émigré Roots of Modern British Art
The story British art tells about itself tends to run through native genius: Turner's light, Constable's fields, the Bloomsbury painters at their easels. It is a comforting story and an incomplete one