Culture

I have just been on short holiday in Andalusia, visiting Granada and Córdoba. While travelling through that beautiful landscape, I had with me Tariq Ali's novel Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree on the collapse of

It’s the time of year when agricultural shows are happening up and down the country. They range in scale from one-day fixtures on the local calendar, to major commercial events taking place over several days,

Last weekend The Observer ran an article declaring 'the end of the hipster', predicting a self-implosion of the culture that everyone loves to hate. One article has even argued that ‘the hipster represents the end of Western

As a historian who has worked on gender performance and the powers and weaknesses that such performances may bring, I have been watching this year's Eurovision Song Contest with some excitement - but also with

When David Cameron recently declared Britain to be a “Christian country”, what was the Prime Minister trying to say? Many commentators have suggested that it was a coded appeal to tradition (and to traditionally minded

This is part of a series of posts commissioned by HistoryMatters in response to the award of the MacArthur 'genius' prize to the historian Robin Fleming for her work on archaeological sources. All of the