This dossier is dedicated to Marcel L’Herbier, a seminal figure in twentieth-century cinema who, although very prolific, remains little known outside France. It grows out of the 4th Fashion in Film Festival, a film season which celebrated L’Herbier’s unique position in French cinema – and cinema more generally – as a driving force behind many sign…[Read more]

Historians have tended to suggest that Britain’s colonial officials demonstrated an esprit de corps, and that this is testament to the efficacy of public schooling in generating social cohesion. Examining Britain’s officials in seven different colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa, this article will argue that differences in working conditions, a…[Read more]

The Battle of Agincourt, 1415, has attracted much attention from scholars. Yet much of the academic focus in this phase of the Hundred Years War centres on the English king, the army, the battle and its aftermath. Much less research has been carried out on the maritime logistics that underpinned Henry V’s invasion of France. This article seeks t…[Read more]

This article summarises the contents of my 1998 book on the same subject.

This paper explores some ontological aspects of archaeological voids and enclosures together with their translations and substitutions, and considers the nature of spaces within material archaeological deposits and artefacts. The dematerialized and rematerialized bodies of the victims of Vesuvius in CE 79 are reappraised as a case study. By…[Read more]