Excerpts from Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge, published by the newly established Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) in March 2020. This post was originally published on the gloknos blog (8 April 2020), and is re-posted here with their permission.
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Writer and journalist Annie Zaidi, winner of the Nine Dots Prize 2019 – 2020, talks to us about her memoir written in response to the question "Is there still no place like home?"
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A new CRASSH research project is compiling the largest database of plague imagery ever amassed, focusing on a pandemic that peaked in the early 20th century and continues to this day.
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What can the items and objects associated with 18th-century coffeeshops tell us about 18th-century culture? Craig Cessford, of the CRASSH Things That Matter seminar and Cambridge Archaelogical Unit, investigates.
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In 1714, the British Parliament offered large rewards for finding longitude at sea. Men around the world submitted schemes but only one woman, Jane Squire, published a proposal under her own name. Dr Alexi Baker has been investigating the life story of this remarkable trailblazer.
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