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Pause for Thought
Florence Hazrat looks at the history of punctuation marks (such as brackets) and emojis.
Opium Tales
Fariha Shaikh reads accounts from Thomas de Quincey (1821) to Timothy Mo and Amitav Ghosh.
Alexander and the Persians
Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander the Great.
The Paradox of Ecological Art
Vid Simoniti considers eco-art from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng.
A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris
Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.
John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for Freedom
Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854.
Ruffs in Jamestown
Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about life for C16 English settlers in America.
African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane CissΓ©.
Contesting an Alphabet
Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic script.
Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield
Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.
