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Robert Darnton on the information age
“Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It’s no one’s fault but everyone’s problem, because in trying to get our bearings in...
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Benjamin Woolley talks about Pocahontas
Benjamin Woolley: Pocahontas, the true story Benjamin Woolley will present a guest lecture at The London School of Liberal Arts on 22 July 2011 as part of a short course entitled “Imagining the Past”....
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Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
Read the first English excerpt from historian Götz Aly’s new book “Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Equality, Envy and Racial Hatred 1800 – 1933″. “The gnawing envy which the individual is prepared...
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John Gray reviews five of his favourite books at The Browser. A few extracts from the conversation to whet your appetite: “I would call a project utopian if it can be known with reasonable confidence...
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Benjamin Woolley is an award-winning writer of the best-selling The Queen’s Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. John Dee and Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Civil War for the Heart of Medicine...
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LibArts London Summer School
“What shall we choose? Weight or lightness?” Milan Kundera’s question sets the scene for our summer school. Kundera says that the heavier the burden we carry, the more truthful our lives become. The...
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