Priestley’s England

Priestley’s EnglandPriestleys England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth century Britain through the radical critique offered by one of its most popular writers, J B Priestley. Its wide ranging themes include Englishness, literary culture and its values, Americanisation and mass culture.

reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities

Drawing on interviews with cinema activists in Germany

What drives an artist to create

and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal the challenges by women to social and economic norms

vanished vistas and material objects

Bobo Lo argues that revitalizing global order is the central task of our time

Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali Christians

social and political transformations

and examine the work of contemporary dramatists

morphological

’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities

The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs