Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2013: Vox Populi?: The Recorded Voice and Twentieth-Century British History

Vox populi or vox Dei?

t may interest readers to know that Australia has had an unexpected fallout of the 2000 Sydney Olympics—an increase in the population! At a time when politicians are calling for an increase in birth rates, it is pleasing to note that sports medicine is doing its best for the nation. A recent newspaper report noted that 35 overseas athletes who came to Australia for the Olympics did not actually...

Bookmakers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century

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British string quartets of the twentieth century

Twentieth-century sexuality: a history

Angus McLaren's ability to provide an overview of as complex a topic as sexuality in the mercurial twentieth-century is truly outstanding. In this book, he summarizeswith wit as well as historical accuracymany of the key issues that have shaped sexual identity throughout the last century. He does this by focusing on the stories that people tell about sex in court reports, newspaper clippings, m...

tWeNtieth-CeNtury CeNtraL asiaN history

Recently opened archives in Central Asia have allowed historians to debunk several myths about the Soviet constitution in that region. Archival research has revealed that indigenous elites were associated with the process of territorial division in the 1920s and 1930s and many of their conflicts were echoed in the central ruling bodies in Moscow. Similarly, field research has undermined the ide...