Britain’s Royal Navy embarked on a huge anti-slavery campaign, but those ‘rescued’ didn’t always feel the benefits.
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Charlie Hebdo’s often biting and dark humour frequently troubles people in France, and many reactions to the attack in France were not in keeping with the values of the publication.
In a turbulent period of French history, women’s journals started to agitate for legal, political and cultural rights.
If sci-fi films mirror the world’s contemporary dystopian anxieties, then over the years Star Wars has gone from nuclear war to environmental collapse.
Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
The world’s highest selling writer says 22-hour working days are the route to literary riches. But, say, our literary experts, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
Precedents exist for making people have certain vaccines. Perhaps it’s time to extend this.
The annual Carnival rituals subvert traditional French notions of family and sexuality.
The French writer’s work and life make perfect cinematic subjects.
The famine caused a million deaths and scarred the national psyche for generations. How do you even start to try and represent that in film literature, or art?
The author Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. A new film investigates the gender politics of the novel’s creation.
When black American troops stationed in an English town faced off against white US Army military police.
Science fiction has a more important job to do – it allows us to see ourselves in a new light.
The people of Haiti are furious at their leaders and want to have their say – but the outside world has other priorities.
Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
In Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the fictional character Whisky Sisodia comments that the “trouble with the Engenglish is that their hiss hiss history happened overseas, so they dodo…
In the late 18th century, a small band of British Quakers and other humanitarian-minded folk began to build the case against the slave trade. Britain’s supremacy in maritime power and technology meant…
One Direction got lucky this year, taking two awards away from the Brits. One of these was in the new Best British video category, judged by the British public via a live vote over Twitter. And this was…
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Robert Wallace Chair of English in the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
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Lecturer in Popular Music, University of Liverpool
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Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Professor in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London
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Professor in English and American Studies, University of Lancashire
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University
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Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor of English, University of Southampton
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Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
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Honorary Fellow, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull
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PhD Film Researcher, University of Glasgow
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Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University
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Independent Researcher, University of Nottingham