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A map of Leadenhall Street and Houndsditch which includes several parish churches and synagogues. Excerpt from John Rocque’s 1746 map of London, from David Rumsey maps. June 1780 saw some of the most destructive riots ever to break out on the streets of London. Motivated by anti-Catholic feeling, The Gordon Riots involved several days of […]
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It is Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10:42 am. Artist A. is mixing magenta and cobalt blue oil paint – produced by the famous Blockx manufacturers of artist materials – with a few drops of alkyd medium, using a #4 Filbert brush, then applying it in broad strokes to a finely woven canvas, picking up some […]
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The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though, the story of Israel is the story of Moses. Philo of Alexandria wrote his De Vita Moses as a biography of this leader and lawgiver […]
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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It takes as its remit the intense proximity, entwinement, and even identity between queerness and American literature. When the American literary scholar Eric Savoy asked […]
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What do you feel when you look at something beautiful? Take this honeysuckle pattern, copied from a Greek vase. As your eyes trace its symmetrical curves, can you feel your “two lungs draw in a long breath”? Do those inhalations give you a “sense of expansion,” or a “vague feeling of harmony”? How about your […]
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The literature of the Third Indochina War has been dominated by journalists and political scientists, particularly international relations specialist with an interest in Asia and/or Indochina writing during the duration of the conflict. Like all contemporary accounts, they are very much dependent on open sources and media reports with very limited access to archival sources, […]
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LGBTQ+ rights are under attack around the country. In just the first six months of 2024, state legislators introduced 527 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community. The situation is so dire that the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans. Although these legal attacks are painful and dispiriting, the LGBTQ+ movement’s […]
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Anyone who has ever watched the Six Nations in Rugby or the World Cup in Football probably is familiar with the sentiment of beating a neighbouring country or rival brings among the faithful. What these competitions show is how overcoming a detested neighbour in head-to-head contests can provide incomparable feelings of victory. Is this feeling […]
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