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The beautiful nuance of ‘A Passage to India’

Glenn Armstrong reviews E.M. Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’, discussing what it reveals about British colonial attitudes and where it falls short.

John Stewart sheds light on the reality of nurses in World War One, looking beyond the influences of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale.

Luke Bateman reviews the EWF4 paper, or Global Middle Ages.

“No matter what country you’re learning about, you’ll probably bump into Britain.” Nathan Land argues against compulsory British history papers.

“The story of Tbilisi is one of constant adaptation and rebirth.”

Daniel Morgan sets out the case for the continued relevance of the Historiography Prelims paper.

Yasmin Howells’ creative translation of Wulf and Eadwacer, an Old English Poem found in the Book of Exeter.

Did Oxford University’s bowler hatted police force have any real power? And what does its existence say about the wider university?

Maciej Nowakowski opens his ‘Cities of Hope’ series by looking at Warsaw, “the Paris of the North”.

Maebh Howell discusses Netflix’s The Dig, and how the Old English period is more varied and interesting than the film implies.