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Inside the Modernist mind: Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto (2019)
By Sam Young (@Samyoung102) Shiromi Pinto, Plastic Emotions (Influx Press, 2019), £9.99 Minnette de Silva was a remarkable individual. Sri Lanka’s first female architect and the first Asian woman to join the Royal Institute of British Architects, she pioneered the development of a ‘Regional Modernism’ style of urban design throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In…
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‘Come From Away’: Can historical methodology and theatre co-exist?
By Charlotte Coyne (@charlottecoyne_) Recently, there has been a rise in the number of musical theatre productions which choose to depict historical events. Many even delve into discussing historiography and the process of creating history as a major theme of the show. Most lauded among these is, of course, Hamilton: An American Musical, to which…
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The Climate of History: Protest and Performance at the British Museum
By Alex White (@alex_j_white) On the 8 February 2020, the British Museum became the site of a mass protest for climate justice. The target was the multinational oil and gas provider BP, a long-term partner of the British Museum and the sponsor of a new flagship exhibition entitled ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’.[1] According to the…
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History in the Present: Saving the Thomas Cook Archives
By Zoë Jackson On September 23, 2019, the British travel company Thomas Cook suddenly went out of business. The company had been dealing with financial issues for years. But its end was abrupt enough as to catch hundreds of thousands of travellers in the middle of trips or looking forward to trips planned with the…
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Apocalypse Then: what would past ages have made of COVID-19?
By Sam Harrison (@seph1812) As the implications of COVID-19 became clear last month, many of us began to ask why we had not done more to prepare for it: we had known for some time that the virus had the potential to become a pandemic, and for years experts had been warning successive British governments…
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