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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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