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While reading recently British Library correspondence files relating to the poet Edwin Muir'the 130th anniversary of whose birth will be on 15 May this year'I was struck, as I have often been, by the important part played in his development as man and poet by his contact with the life of Europe'a continent that is currently high on the agenda of many of us with a possible British Brexit in view.
Posted on May 15, 2017
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Fake news is not only a phenomenon of post-truth politics in the Trump era. It's as old as newspapers themselves'or as old, Robert Darnton suggests, as the scurrilous Anecdota of Procopius in sixth-century Byzantium. In England, the first great age of alternative facts was the later seventeenth century, when they clustered especially around crises of dynastic succession.
Posted on April 30, 2017
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Since the political earthquake of Trump's election, preceded by the earth tremor of Brexit, the commentariat has been awash with declarations of the end of eras'of globalisation, of neoliberalism, of the post-World War II epoch of political stability and economic prosperity. As though to orientate ourselves in this brave new world, the search has been on for historical analogies, through whose lenses we might understand our present moment.
Posted on May 3, 2017
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Charles Dickens's reputation as a novelist and as the creator of Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the most globally recognized Christmas miser figures, has secured him what looks to be a permanent place in the established literary canon. Students, scholars, and fans of Dickens may be surprised to learn that the voice many Victorians knew as 'Dickens,' especially at Christmastime, was also the voice of nearly forty other people.
Posted on February 19, 2017
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