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John Hume: The Achievement and Limitations of a Man in War
I have not read all the tributes that have been made to John Hume since his death in 2020, but I doubt if many—perhaps any—of them have...
Peter Brooke
20 min read
The Visit of Czarevitch Nicholas Alexandrovitch to Lahore, January 1891
The below is adapted from Fakir Aijazuddin's 2021 book Imperial Curiosity: Early Views of Pakistan, 1845-1906 . Introduction The...
Fakir Aijazuddin
19 min read
John Morley and India: Anti-Imperialist Thought in Practice
The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...
Matthew Fisher
31 min read
The Sustaining Cosmos
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5.167–68),...
Jonathan Jones
7 min read
Who Am I?
One of the problems of having lived a long life is that it brings home to one the many different identities one has occupied in the...
Edward Lucie-Smith
4 min read
Traversing the Art Legal System in Early Modern Venice: The Case of Antonio Floriano’s Mappamondo
The application of print privilege (pre-copyright) legislation to Venetian cartography came about by chance.[1] While the Venetian...
Sarah Alexis Rabinowe
26 min read
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy
The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...
Nicolas Canal Tinius
15 min read
The Space Race and Its Discontents: Hannah Arendt on Space, 1951-63
Introduction Arendt’s account of modernity and The Human Condition (1958)[1] Opening the final section of The Human Condition...
Clare Francis
20 min read
Does the Concept of ‘Spiritual Resistance’ Add to our Understanding of Jewish Life in the Ghettos?
In his seminal 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews , Raul Hilberg proposed a thesis that sought to explain a perceived lack of...
Nathaniel Rachman
23 min read
Elite Overproduction: An Inside Perspective
1 To become an administrative official in imperial China necessitated following a burdensome path from an early age. To begin with, a...
Jakob Gomolka
10 min read
The Future of the Museum of London: In Conversation with Sharon Ament
Sharon Ament is the Director of the Museum of London, and inspiring passion in the capital and its museum is her goal. Sharon joined the...
Joseph Court
10 min read
Rethinking Pharaonic Government: Constitutional Lessons from Ancient Egypt
Conventional wisdom tells us that the first civilisation to be governed in a manner comparable to our own was Ancient Greece—the world’s...
Alexandre Loktionov
15 min read
Splendid Isolation or Fish out of Water? Fishing, Brexit, and the Iconography of a Maritime Nation
1. The fish are alright Historically and presently, the United Kingdom has identified and presented itself as a maritime...
Aadil Siddiqi and Nathan Davies
19 min read
‘A heap of broken images’: The Possibility of Connection in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land
Eliot’s work is filled—especially the poetry—with masks, role-playing, and multiple voices. Yet it is saturated everywhere, too, with...
Asseel Darwish
15 min read
Famous Lost Artworks
Modern commerce takes place at supersonic speed. It therefore surprises many that most of the world’s traded goods are still, at some...
Serhan Handani
8 min read
The Cultural Logic of Statues
A statue tumbles and, with an almighty splash, sinks below the water. Those responsible cheer with joy. Onlookers are captured in a range...
Jack Graveney
12 min read
Leonardo the Myth alongside Leonardo the Architect
Leonardo da Vinci is a constant of the Western cultural tradition. We grow up with a vague sense of Leonardo’s achievements, knowing him...
Ruairi Smith
10 min read
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