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Photo: The author Katherine van Wormer (University of Northern Iowa)   When I grew up in the Deep South, in New Orleans, the [...]

Image: Mike Fleming CC-BY-2.0 Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex)   Charity singles were the perfect cultural form for Mrs Thatcher’s Eighties.  They were [...]

Image: The Cello Part for Vaughan Williams' London Symphony Anna Bull (Goldsmiths, University of London)   In recent years there has been a [...]

Image: Jennifer Smith Maguire Jennifer Smith Maguire (University of Leicester)   The word ‘terroir’ has considerable clout in the world of fine wine. [...]

Image: Roberto Clemente Paola Tubaro (University of Greenwich)   Last June, a group of Italian MPs proposed jail terms and fines for authors [...]

Matthew Weait (Birkbeck, University of London)   The Ebola crisis has re-ignited public debate about the way in which law should be [...]

Paul Johnson (University of York)   Then there is the question of human rights… We attach great importance to this… e hope [...]

Bradford Cenotaph (Photo Peter Nias) Peter Nias (University of Bradford)   What is the purpose of these war remembrances, both the annual November [...]

Photo: Richard Titmuss and Ann Oakley Ann Oakley (Institute of Education, University of London)   Most of us would agree that our parents, [...]