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In 1935, just two years after the normalization of Soviet American relations, Pravda sent two humorists to the United States as reporters and cultural ambassadors. That the Soviet Union under Stalin even had humorists may surprise many. But Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov were genuine Soviet funnymen, the coauthors of two beloved satirical novels, The […]
Read MoreFrench people are often surprised that foreigners come to France to study ancient Greece. It is easy for them to understand why foreign philosophers might go there. It is a matter of genuine national pride that ‘French theory’ conquered the Anglophone world in the 1980s. But few French realise that among foreign historians of ancient […]
Read MoreWhen I want to introduce people to the nineteenth-century polymath John Herschel (1792–1871), sometimes it’s difficult to know where to begin. There are simply so many possible ways to start: He was widely perceived as the scientific heir to Isaac Newton, following in his footsteps as master of the mint and ultimately buried in his […]
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This book constitutes Volume X in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is an authoritative account of the period 1921-1930, when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. World War I profoundly expanded the administrative capacities of the American state. Riding the wave of an intense backlash, […]
Read MoreWhat makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed us back to our own animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer […]
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Between 1780 and 1918 over 1 million petitions were sent to the UK House of Commons. These petitions, which addressed over 33,000 issues, were signed by 165 million people. The colossal scale of petitioning in this period was unprecedented in the history of Britain and Ireland as well as in other countries. In a pre-democratic […]
Read MoreIn my book, Old Age and American Slavery, I explore perceptions of old age and attitudes towards “old” people in the US South. I focus on the experiences and identities of enslavers and enslaved alike and reveal the implications of aging on the institutional and ideological structures underpinning US slavery. In revealing how enslavers and […]
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In 2017 a new musical about the life of Louis Braille, The Braille Legacy, opened in London. The show was widely criticised for its flagrant inaccessibility: of the 90 performances, only two were Audio Described, both taking place the same bank holiday weekend. But the material inaccessibility of the performances was only part of the […]
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