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On the life (and deaths) of democracy

26 May 2016

The ‘life’ of democracy – from its roots in ancient Athens to today’s perverted and ‘creeping, crypto-oligarchies’ – is the subject of a newly-published book by eminent Cambridge classicist Paul Cartledge.

Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies

30 October 2014

In her new book Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period, Sarah Houghton-Walker provides a fascinating insight into writers’ and artists’ portrayals of wanderers. Her study focuses on a period when gypsies’ fragile place in the landscape, and on the margins of society, came increasingly under threat.

'The March of Intellect', etching c.1828. Robert Seymour ('Shortshanks')

Driving a harpoon deep into the floating carcass of Humbug

17 April 2014

In his latest book, Professor Jim Secord explores seven scientific books that made a lasting historical impact. Visions of Science concentrates on the 1830s, an era that witnessed an often passionate clash of viewpoints. Secord will be talking about his book in Heffers bookshop tonight (17 April 2014).

Articles about 'Oxford University Press'

On the life (and deaths) of democracy

Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies

Driving a harpoon deep into the floating carcass of Humbug

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