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Virtual History?
By Patrick McGhee | @patricksmcg Computer and video gaming is now firmly a part of cultural, political and economic discourse. The financial and cultural power of video games is beyond dispute. The video games market will soon be worth $100bn and video games are played together by millions of people connected around the world. Gaming…
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World at their Feet: The World Cup and History
By Tom Smith (@TomEtesonSmith) For any football fan, and even for many who don’t usually indulge in the ‘beautiful game’, the arrival of the World Cup every four years provides pure escapism. Even in England, the disappointment of a predictable penalty shoot-out defeat is assuaged by the tournament’s association with long hot summer days, the colours…
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9. Dizzy Gillespie Stops a Riot
By Chris Campbell Amidst the backdrops of the Cold War and the end of the British Empire, one of the world’s foremost jazz trumpeters was perhaps an unlikely candidate to unite a city divided by both major events. Despatched by the US State Department on a tour of Southern Europe and the Middle East in…
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