The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
As Michaelmas Term begins, a welcome from DPIR's new Head of Department Professor David Doyle
New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture
The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on a very old story; so old that it became a myth. And since the distance between the Jewish present and the Jewish past was vast, the wish to make Palestine a home for a modern Jewish nation called for creating that nation anew. It was an immense claim that required an equally immense innovation. The lecture reexamines this well-known story by looking at some of the cultural innovations of Zionists - body culture, space, art, music - and considering their fraught legacy a century later.