Tag: landscape

  • Historian Highlight – Benjamin Iago Gibson

    Historian Highlight – Benjamin Iago Gibson

    interviewed by Jake Bransgrove, @Jake_Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Benjamin Iago Gibson, a first-year PhD candidate at Trinity Hall, to discuss mountains and their roots, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and…

  • ‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania

    ‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania

    Socialist Albania was made by modernisation, and a political pursuit of its aesthetic and sociological derivatives. Enver Hoxha sought to transform Albania into a self-conscious nation-state via the transformation of the physical landscape. This was done according to contemporary discourses connecting modernity and architecture and informed by the acute sense of vulnerability that defined Hoxha’s…