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Historian Highlight: Benjamin Farrington (1891-1974)
by Sam Phoenix Clarke, @samjphoenix ‘Recent advances in physics hold out the prospect that human civilisation may be destroyed. Recent advances in history, revealing to us with a startlingly clearer insight what the nature of civilisation is, might, if they were more widely understood, give us the little bit of extra wisdom which would induce…
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The Methodology of Feyerabend’s ‘Against Method’
by Bipasha Bhattacharyya, @Bipasha05235299 “Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise”[i] begins Feyerabend’s controversial book; And with it, the author becomes “science’s worst enemy.”[ii] This epithet is not all that surprising for the ‘serious academic’. After all, anarchy means Guy Fawkes’s masks, and burning effigies, cheers of Inquilab Zindabad on the streets of West Bengal…
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Navigating Beyond the Naga Conflict: A Clash of Systems
by Vinolen John, @vinolenjohn Studies concerning histories of conflicts are always a thin line to tread. This is particularly true with regards to Naga History which revolves around facets of decolonisation, nation and identity construction, insurgency and conflict, inter alia. The Nagas are a group of disparate tribes in the highlands of India’s northeast and…
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Doing Baltic History through Geopolitics Summer Schools
by Elvira Tamus The Baltic Sea region was an important trading partner for England, Scotland, and then the United Kingdom in the early modern period. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it supplied naval stores to the Royal Navy. Britain fought for the independence of the Baltic states against the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, and have…
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Searching for Authenticity: Parallels between Early Modern England and the Age of AI
By Zoë Jackson (Twitter: @ZoeMJackson1, Bluesky: @zoejackson.bsky.social) If you teach, or work in a public-facing role, or indeed have any online or social media presence at all, you will probably be aware of a chatbot called ChatGPT. Since its launch by OpenAI in late 2022, individuals and companies have found a range of uses for the tool.…
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