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When you fight a total war, you are not just fighting the armies on the ground or the navies on the sea or the planes in the air. What you are fighting is the whole fabric behind.
Professor of History
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Enjoy conversations with leading academics, scientists and thinkers.
When Lea Ypi discovers a 1941 photo of her grandmother Leman honeymooning in the Alps—despite believing such records were destroyed—she is drawn into a search for the truth about her family. The story unfolds across a turbulent 20th century shaped by war, shifting regimes, and the rise of communism in the Balkans. As Ypi reconstructs Leman’s life—from Ottoman aristocracy to socialist-era Tirana—she confronts contradictions, hidden loyalties, and unanswered questions. Blending memoir, history, and archival fragments, Indignity explores memory, survival, and the moral complexity of judging past lives.
Professor in Political Theory
with Lisa Appignanesi
Adam Phillips has written some 30 books now and most of them are made up of essays. They're epigrammatic, enlivening, and they use and tease out a genre developed or invented perhaps by Montaigne and made a little more comical by Charles Lamb.
Writer and Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities
with Marina Warner
Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, is a book both passionate and erudite about refugees, refuge and the power of story.
Writer and Professor in Creative Writing
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