Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 February 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’ exhibition at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Read More
Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 February 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again becomes a major theatre in world politics, a new project aims to tell that history from the inside.

Read More
Detail of a map of the Holy Roman Empire, 1492 - 1618.

Kaiser, Reich and the making of modern Germany

01 December 2011

Europe is in crisis and its future is said to depend on Germany. ̽»¨Ö±²¥most comprehensive study of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken, published this week, questions just how much we know about its past - and how much we understand it as a result.

Read More