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She Wanted to Mourn, But Chose to Save A Life
In my article Armistice Day, World Peace and Feeding the Hungry I talk about the amazing work of the Belgian Relief Commission.
Read More »Armistice Day, World Peace, and Feeding the Hungry
On Armistice Day let’s remember that dream of world peace that should have followed the First World War.
Read More »Book Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
Hints at an alternative world history in which the nation state is something many people fled over millennia, not a "civilising" influence.
Read More »Book Review: Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
In Bob Dylan in America Sean Wilentz provides a study of Dylan's influences and source materials and of Dylan himself.
Read More »Book Review: Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar
Remember how the war was supposed to revolutionize women's rights in Afghanistan?
Read More »Book Review: The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to True Blood Fourth Edition by Alain Silver and James Ursini
Exhaustive study of vampire films over the years.
Read More »Plumpy’nut: A Modern-Day CARE Package
Retail stores today could offer an outlet for people to buy CARE plumpy'nut packages for starving infants overseas.
Read More »Book Review: Crow Country by Mark Cocker
This left me with a strong desire to learn more about my local corvids.
Read More »Book Review: Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman (eds)
Academic papers covering the work of Mary Astell, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips and Eliza Haywood.
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