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English Laughter by Alan Morrison
Cover image is adapted from a publicity still of English music hall performer Charles Penrose posing as the eponymous ‘Laughing Policeman’ (Columbia Records, 1926) In Alan Morrison’s fourteenth…
The Vowel Curtain: Theatre’s Accent Problem.
Adam Page tackles English theatres’ accent addiction to Received Pronunciation and it’s inability to let go.
The Right To Choose
By Lynn White Some citizens of Israel are exercisingtheir right to returnto the places they came from.The choice is theirs. Other citizens of Israel are exercisingtheir right…
Monopoly
By Arran Potts You can barely afford to live,go back to Old Kent Road. COMMUNITY CHESTYour empty houses have beengiven to the homeless;advance three spaces. You try…
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Culture Is Never Fixed: Why Cultural Studies Matters in a Migrating World
Commons image By Tarique Ahmed Culture is often treated as something we inherit: a language spoken by our grandparents, food prepared in our homes, festivals celebrated by…
Journal of Class and Culture – Fourth Annual Conference
University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford, England Saturday 3 October • 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM Organised by University of Hertfordshire and University of the…
Why can’t Women Be Priests?
Photo credit: Stephen Brash By Geoff Bottoms Why can’t women be priests? It’s a good question whose time has come, and in many parts of the universal…
Ten books that shook the World Cup
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman recommends ten reads that reveal the tournament at its best and worst.
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Adam Page tackles English theatres' accent addiction to Received Pronunciation and it's inability to let go. Continue reading
By Lynn White Some citizens of Israel are exercisingtheir right to returnto the places they came from.The choice is theirs. Other citizens of Israel are... Continue reading
Commons image By Tarique Ahmed Culture is often treated as something we inherit: a language spoken by our grandparents, food prepared in our homes, festivals... Continue reading
By Arran Potts You can barely afford to live,go back to Old Kent Road. COMMUNITY CHESTYour empty houses have beengiven to the homeless;advance three spaces.... Continue reading
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By Declan Geraghty Take your flagsand build tentsones that protect usfrom the rain,a nationunder one flag,the breeze gets inso we build walls with flags,we attach... Continue reading