The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

Jennifer Wallace ( Cambridge) The “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond” conference is organised within the research grant ...

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Gikas was one of the most important Greek artists of the 20th century, with a wide range of work in ...

Readings in black American writers such as. W. E. B. Dubois, Ralph Ellison, Nella Larsen, and Rita Dove. Organized around aesthetic and cultural issues such as feminism, the 'anxiety of influence,' ...

The European-american School, 20th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. What is ...

Professor Kostas Papazachos, a leading seismologist from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has described the 1956 earthquake as the most powerful to hit Europe between the Ural Mountains and ...

In 1999 Geert Mak, a Dutch journalist, was given an enviable commission by his newspaper: to travel throughout Europe in the last months of the century, reporting daily on the condition of the ...

Around 1,400 political prisoners – including doctors, journalists and scientists – are jailed in the country, according to ...

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

Also known as the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a movement of the 1920s and '30s that sought to redefine ...

Tantalizing notions of long life, even immortality, have always been part of human consciousness, recurring in religion, literature, cinema, music, even consumer goods.The opening chapters of the Old ...