Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.

Raoul Hausmann. Vision. Provocation. Dada. - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin, Fotografie, Architektur, Künstler-Archive, Dada Berlin, Neue Sachlichkeit und Osteuropäische Avantg...

Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law

The co-founder of an archive on the history of the Dutch colonies speaks about the importance of memory and anti-racism, amid the rise of the far-right in the Netherlands

Swamps, huge and inundate St George’s Fields was a large open space lying between Southwark and Lambeth, lying between modern Newington Causeway/Borough High Street to the east, and Kennington Rod/Baylis Road to the west. Of old it stretched as far as the village of Newington in the south (around modern Elephant & Castle), and as late as the mid-18th century as far north as modern Marshalsea Road, though the Fields shrank over time as building encroached on its edges. Part of the land had once belonged to the wealthy and powerful Brandon family, the Dukes of Suffolk, who swapped it with king Henry VIII who at one point intended to create a new royal hunting park there.

Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

The British Library has been thrown into further turmoil midway through a two-week PCS strike with the resignation of its chief executive Rebecca Lawrence.

British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...