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Professors, Polymaths and Progress: Learning from Thomas Young@250

Read now a new blog by Andrew Robinson on the topic of his latest Open Access title 'The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young'.

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A People’s Voice

We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.

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Translating 'Les Philosophes': A Collaborative Challenge

Felicity Gush and Rosie Rigby reflect on the collaborative translation of "'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot", ed. and transl. Jessica Goodman et al.

1600-1850

The Role of the Well-Timed Question

My chapter in Information and Empire [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/636] is something that I never really expected to write. It came about because of a simple question from Katia Bowers about

1600-1850

Expect the Unexpected

Underlying my contributions to Information and Empire is academic work extending back several decades over much of my academic career (with many breaks for other projects). I have had the satisfaction of seeing

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Of Roots and Scrolls

Or, How the Bible, Witchcraft, and Botany Were Brought Together By Bureaucracy In A Completely Everyday Fashion That Was Totally Normal At The Time, No, Really, Stay With Me On This One You

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How do people know things?

“How do people know things?” – the title of this blog post – seems like a simple question, but as our new publication, Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 demonstrates, the answer

How do languages die? The case of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia)

Unveiling The Human Journey

On 'Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context'

“NO LIFE WITHOUT YOU”: REFUGEE LOVE LETTERS FROM THE 1930s

Professors, Polymaths and Progress: Learning from Thomas Young@250

A People’s Voice

Translating 'Les Philosophes': A Collaborative Challenge

The Role of the Well-Timed Question

Expect the Unexpected

Of Roots and Scrolls

How do people know things?