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    • Illuminating Knowledge: The London Mechanics’ Institution and the Diorama 

      Plunkett, J (Open Library of Humanities, 12 November 2024)
      The London Mechanics’ Institution, founded in 1823, sought to foster scientific knowledge among operatives. This article demonstrates how it was part of a new educational and technological landscape whereby there were ...
    • ‘We should be colliers’: Coal, contagion, and the Elizabethan theatre 

      Preedy, CK (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
      Both colliers and the coals they carried were a familiar feature of life in early modern England. Mined coal and manufactured charcoal fueled a significant proportion of contemporary domestic and industrial activity, ...
    • Care Crisis 

      Baraitser, L; Baraitser, L (Routledge, 22 October 2024)
      Care is increasingly narrativised as being “in crisis,” due to the systematic erosion of care infrastructures and the financialisation of all forms of care (e.g. social care, eldercare, childcare, disability care, healthcare). ...
    • Cultural Value in a Time of Crisis: Public Debates and Governmental Discourses in the G7 Nations 

      Aebischer, P; Gray, K; Antoniazzi, L; et al. (Routledge, 2024)
      This article explores how responses to the pandemic in relation to creative workforces, organisations and their audiences, and the structures underpinning the performing arts in each of the G7 countries our research compared ...
    • Sources of Liberalism: the Geopolitics of Beauty 

      Gagnier, R (Manchester University Press, 2025)
      The ARC grant noted a lack of attention to the emotions in scholarship on liberalism in recent Victorian literary studies. This paper duly takes up liberalism and aesthetics. While our contemporary cognitive psychology is ...