An archaeology of lunacy

An archaeology of lunacyThis is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier.

Connolly pays particular attention to theories and histories since the 1950s and developments since the early 2000s

including Le souvenir d'un avenir andLa Jetee

Chronicles the design of Dakar as a regional capital

remembering (or imagining) and creating an archive

exploring questions of production

Rosanna Maule argues that the film auteur is not only the most important symbol of European cinema’s cultural tradition

Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar

Elizabeth Isham

The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us

It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery

The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914

Iina Kohonen maps the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship during the Cold War