A century after its publication, is Joyce’s epic still the greatest work of humanist literature?
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Ulysses', religion & the counterculture: TWE are the artistic tools of 'parodies and mockeries' an asset in interpreting the effects of the past on how we see ourselves today?
Thirty years after it appeared, Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" remains a model and inspiration
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'The end of history', Plato's 'thymos' & the historical process: Reviewing the idea that the desire for recognition is a 'motor of universal and unidirectional historical development toward liberalism'...
These films got their history wrong - find out how.
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Nov2022 Title 6 From 'Mary Queen of Scot's to 'Braveheart': when artists get creative with the facts of the past, they tread a line between historical accuracy and artistic merit...
Both are orders of religious warriors and both were taken down by power-hungry rulers
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Nov2022 Tittle 6: Jedi Knights, the Knights Templar & the Primitive Rule: How an understanding of the past is an asset in influencing the construction of popular culture...
The internet has become strangely nostalgic for life in the Middle Ages.
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Nov2022 Title 6: The Medieval Age, pop-historical beliefs & using the past to understand the present: One obstacle to historians is that our 'understanding of the past isn't settled fact'...
There has been a marked difference in the coverage of Ukraine with media outlets invoking images of the world wars.
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Nov2022 Title 6: War photography, EyCon & the search for metadata: Aiming to overcome the obstacle of artistic expressions of eurocentric viewpoints on past global conflicts...
Making History Matters of Importance There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022 For a long time – in the view of my publisher far too long a time –...
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Nov2022 Title 6: Henry VIII's wives, gendered judgments & narrow perspectives: how distorted source material is an obstacle to understanding the place of women in the past...
Array Collective took this year's award for tackling taboo topics in Northern Ireland.
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Nov2022 Title 6: Array Collective, Northern Irish politics & a Turner Prize: How artists' perspectives can create a space to 'talk and disagree' in a good humored way about the past & present...
A new book explores why history is the perfect subject of study for those with political ambitions.
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Nov2022 Title 6: History as story or history as 'science'?: TWE are 'narratives of progress and destiny' an obstacle to our understanding of the political past and even present?
The pandemic revealed to us that global disasters don't have a simple start, middle and end.
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Station Eleven', fictional pandemics & visions of the apocalypse: how new forms of artistic storytelling not only make some sense of a traumatic past, but also showcase how we can live better in the present.
Thirteen Lives stars Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen as two of the heroic divers. Is it accurate?
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Thirteen Lives', the Tham Luang Nang Non rescue & filmic fudging: when past events are so well known, TWE does the the line between fact & fiction in Art become easier to discern?
Nov2022 Title 6: Jingoistic history vs. nihilistic revisionist history: how to navigate a more fruitful path towards an understanding of a past that is full of complexity...
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Nov2022 Title 6 Classical portraiture, reclaiming space & 'Vanishing Points': How art can 'rewrite' history to give us new perspectives & understanding of the more invisible people of the past...
However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science.
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Nov2022 Title 6 Einfühlungsvermögen, storytelling & the one rule of the game: TWE is it an obstacle to our understanding of the past to think that '[n]ovelists are allowed to invent, and historians have to work with verifiable facts'?
John Boyne’s story is used by more than a third of teachers in England in lessons on the Nazi genocide, a study found
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Nov2022 Title 6: Fictions, fables & historical facts: artists have the freedom to explore the 'legitimate space between imagination and reality' as a way of cultivating empathy...
This summer will mark the 85th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a brutal struggle that began with a military uprising against the democratic Second Republic and ended, three years later, in victory for the rebels under General Francisco Franco. The enduring fascination of that conflict, its ability to grip the global imagination, belies its geographical scale and is testament to the power of art.
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Nov2022 Title 6: The 'poet's war', longing & otherness: How an artistic interpretation of a past event helps understand the 'homesickness inherent in the human condition'.
Intense novel about slavery challenged; county has never banned a book from schools.
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Nov2022 Title 6: 'Beloved', slavery & the power of story: When an artist's freedom to interpret the past clashes against the limits of 'constitutional rights, academic freedom and the preservation of childhood innocence'.
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