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Gerd Carling, Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide – Routledge, May 2024 Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical … Continue reading →

Learning lessons from the cyber-attack – British Library update and 18 page report, 8 March 2024 Today, we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place against the British Library last October. Our hope is that doing this will … Continue reading →

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, forthcoming 2024 (can’t find a precise date, so will update with further details later) Update October 2024: Now published and available open access as pdf. Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant … Continue reading →

Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History – Oxford University Press, October 2022, now available open access Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the … Continue reading →

In the final years of his life, Michel Foucault often used the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, a small Dominican library in Paris, for his work. I’ve never had a reason to visit before, but today I spent the morning there, looking … Continue reading →

Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at this time. This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind … Continue reading →

Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

Domenico Losurdo, Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy – trans. David Broder, Verso, April 2024 The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. … Continue reading →