Stories
- Article
Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
Catalogue
- Videos
The end of the beginning.
Date: 1993- Books
The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.Date: 1996- Audio
Images that changed the world. Parts 1-5.
Date: 2010- Books
The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Tsing, Anna LowenhauptDate: 2017- Books
A short history of drunkenness / Mark Forsyth.
Forsyth, MarkDate: 2017