Culture Matters is pleased to present this short film by Professor Esther Leslie, Carl Joyce and Mike Quille. Professor Leslie’s text is below. Walter Benjamin was interested... Continue reading
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The news that the BBC will not broadcast an episode of the new David Attenborough flagship British wildlife documentary Wild Isles indicates the power of acceptable and... Continue reading
Introduction by Fran Lock This story both is and isn’t about Birkbeck. On the one hand, it is absolutely particular to an iconic institution that recently celebrated... Continue reading
I’ve known journalist and lecturer Jan Goodey for many years and was shocked and saddened to learn he had been sentenced last November to a six-month jail... Continue reading
Keith Flett proposes some ways of taking back control of brewing and pubs, beyond the reach of ‘Big Beer’ in brewing and pubs. Image above: the former... Continue reading
Since the rise of early capitalism, the quest of working people for liberation, equality and peace for all – not only for the evolving bourgeois class –... Continue reading
Introduction The rapid spread of the science-based Enlightenment (c1687-c1804) across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a cause of much dismay to the reigning monarchies... Continue reading
In the ancient world it tended to be the most trusted slaves who were put in charge of the care and service of the wine cellar. The... Continue reading
From Daleks to Strictly, Mark Perryman explores the meaning of the BBC at 100 For decades those of us of a certain age have been able to measure... Continue reading
What purpose do the arts serve today? The arts – Music, literature, painting, sculpture, dance etc. – represent vibrant aspects of human culture. They don’t provide us... Continue reading
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