This project is an exploration of the French Resistance using a mass of individual testimonies collected after the war. These were cast aside as unreliable and partisan by so-called  ‘scientific’ historians who privileged the use of archival sources which were gradually made available to researchers from the 1980s, although such...

Throughout the thirteenth century women were traded as diplomatic gifts, along with relics, textiles, exotic foods, gold and jewels. They were the sisters, nieces and daughters of kings and sultans, and were contracted in marriage to foreign rulers to form or strengthen alliances between states. They were potentially powerful outsiders...

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was one of the most remarkable creative artists of modern India. Although rooted in Bengali regional culture and radically divergent from mainstream Indian cinema, Ray’s films came to represent Indian reality for generations of viewers across the world. Acclaimed by leading directors such as Akira Kurosawa or...