Tag: history
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The process that gave rise to Eurocentrism in social sciences and history is somewhat comparable to the follies of youth. Little children have difficulty believing that their parents existed before… more ›
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This was a year – 2023 – that found new ways to shatter the “End of History” hope that the nightmarish spectres of the 20th century had been buried in the… more ›
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Developed by an international team of computer scientists, AI experts and humanities scholars, the Smell Explorer is a vast compendium of smells as represented in 23,000 images and 62,000 public domain texts,… more ›
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These folk ballads also defined a new type of protagonist, now known as the antihero—a familiar figure in film and pop culture, but also an invention of traditional singers. There are… more ›
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To understand the power of starting clean, you have to know the nuance of why the German military became as strong as it did in the 1930s. It starts at… more ›
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After centuries of remaining largely inaccessible to the public, a rare manuscript featuring 2,500 pages of detailed illustrations and text documenting the history and culture of 16th-century Mexico is now… more ›
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In this episode, Tom and Helen discuss the history of Britain’s relationship with the Israel-Palestine question; from Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, to Starmer’s recent opposition to calls for ceasefire.… more ›
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On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was… more ›
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One cannot think about the avant-garde without committing oneself to a theory of history. The term “avant-garde” was first applied to art in the early nineteenth century amid the euphoria… more ›
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A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power. The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history… more ›