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
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
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
It is more than seventy years since the first publication of the first Dutch version of Anne Frank’s diary appeared in print. It was followed by both English and American editions in 1952 and subsequently
This week marks the eighteenth National Holocaust Memorial Day, an occasion on which to mourn and remember the annihilation of six million Jews by Nazi
On the surface, 2017 represented a peak in a progressive movement to reform marriage around the world. Marriage and family law – and the social