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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.

Translation

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

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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

Changing the conversation around Existential Risk

On 'William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design'

Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day

A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice: The Functionalist Symbolic Reference of UK Governance Models

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?