Aaaaaand… I’ve lost you. Well, some of you at least. Reliable authorities suggest that many of the people who click on a link, even many of the people who share it, don’t, in fact, read it (see http://bit.ly/1EpMQlE or http://bit.ly/1toZCNg … but who am I kidding: you won’t read them either…). We’re not even talking […]

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One of the greatest privileges of being a junior fellow at the Institute of Historical Research is meeting the other junior fellows once a week for an informal seminar series. Some of the best papers I saw last year were at this seminar, with presenters talking about a fascinating range of topics, from tattooing and […]

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