Violence

This week the Guardian reporter Kevin McDonald took issue with Nick Clegg’s description of ISIS as “medieval”.  McDonald reported: ‘given the extreme violence of Isis fighters and the frequent images of decapitated bodies, it is

Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama, is in the news after deciding to sue the video-game publisher Activision for using his likeness in Call of Duty: Black Ops II without permission. The eighty-year-old Noriega,

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the bloodiest single day of the Northern Irish Troubles. On 17 May 1974, four bombs exploded without warning in central Dublin and Monaghan town, killing thirty-three people and leaving many

Eighty years ago, on 31 March 1934, anarchist and socialist representatives met in a bar in Gijón in the northern Spanish region of Asturias to sign the Workers’ Alliance, a coalition of the trade unions

A few years ago, the publishers of the leading satirical newspaper in the U.S., The Onion, brought out a collection of historic front pages from the twentieth century. Sandwiched somewhere in-between the sinking of the

What do you do with a dead Nazi?  This question is at the very heart of my work on funerary practices in postwar Germany. Clearly, I have macabre research interests, and the notion of writing