Mushroom clouds in burning skies, wandering skulls, and thousands of people confined in atomic shelters as insects: the final decade of the Cold War brought
Are we feeling the tremors of a political ‘youthquake’? This question has been keenly debated since the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 General Election revealed that age has become the key demographic dividing line
Like many historians, I’ve long been interested in the way the past is portrayed in pop culture. Now that gaming is a bigger business than
Throughout history, storytelling has often bent the truth to create a better, more interesting story. The latest Hugh Jackman film ‘The Greatest Showman’ does just this. In its rags-to-riches musical fairytale, P. T. Barnum appears
In recent months history has been at the forefront of social media politics. One such blow-up was the debate about whether people of colour could
I struggle with memorial days. I can’t help thinking that they make little impact on the notion of memorialism, and before you know it we’ve