A note from the editors…a call for submissions…New Cartography!
Hello faithful readers. A quick explanatory note, which hopefully will go some way to atone for and explain our comparative lack of activity in recent days… Last month, we [...]
Burma on an irreversible path towards democracy
As has been more than amply evidenced in recent months and years, the final days of oppressive, regimes are very often ugly, uncertain, and deadly. An unwillingness to change with [...]
# 5 – Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi
In the 100 years between the mid-19th and mid-20th century, in direct response to the injustices of the colonial administration, a thread of rebellion came into being in India that [...]
Occupy LSX: reasons for hope
In recent years the British public has become increasingly ambivalent to the waves of protestors that have swept down London’s famed thoroughfares and across the nations television screens with unerring [...]
The London Riots: Croydon
This afternoon in Croydon the pedestrianised high street was shut for business, but groups of onlookers milled around, as business owners boarded or re-boarded windows and doors in expectation of [...]
The New Wolf Presentations: #3 – We Will Live, We Will See
Our third presentation comes from The Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery on Prince of Wales Road in Chalk Farm, London. The exhibition marks the inauguration of the Curatorial Open – an [...]
# 3 – Roger Casement
On June 29th, 1916 Roger Casement stood in the dock facing the jury who had just convicted him of treason. He was speaking (he said) not to those present in [...]
Requiem (for a small pub in Hereford)
The men in front of the smoked glass window sit a few feet apart in the hazy gloom with only each other and two half-drunk pints for company or entertainment, [...]
# 2 – Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt cuts a lonely historical figure. In the years after his death he slipped rapidly out of public consciousness: from daring adventurer, pre-eminent natural historian, political progressive and [...]
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