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The themes that this site focuses on

• History

  • 17th century English history, particularly the 'Interregnum' period, and the political thought that flourished therein
  
  
  
  • The Holocaust - the implications of this momentous and terrible process - for Jews, for Germany, and for humanity
  
  
  
  • The individual in history, and how they are affected by and have an effect on culture and society.
  
  
  
  • British Colonial history
    • The effects on the colonised/administered countries
    
    
    
    • The effects of the 'Imperial experence' on British culture and self-perception
    
    
    • The influence of Empire on immigration, stereoptyping, how these effects are mediated in our modern, multi-cultural society
    
    
    
    • The British role in the slave trade
    
    
    
    • How the history of the British Empire coincided with the 'globalisation' of industrialisation and capitalism, and how the economic doctrines that buttressed this process came to be 'the orthodox view'
    
    
    
    • Racism and evolutionary biology/Social Darwinism, and how these ideas are reflected in popular culture, and amongst those voiceless millions who are still subject to the great 'condescension of history'
    
    
    
    • Socialism, freedom, anarchism, Utopianism
    
    
    

• Neuroscience, Culture, and Behaviour





• Evolutionary Biology and its political uses





• Literature

  • Some stuff about some of my favourite authors: how they illuminate the historical times in which they were writing, how these things relate to issues in our time, and reflections on artistic/aesthetic apsects (eg., Dante, Milton, Dickens, Attwood, Proust, (Thomas) Mann, Defoe etc.)
  
  
  

• Art

• Stuff about artists who interest and move me, their relation to their times, and to literature: eg., Dore, Friedrich, Durer, Van Gogh etc.



• Creative Writing

• My own writings and 'works in progress' - short stories, essays, and two novels...
  
  
  

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