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meanwhile, in the other half of europe...
For the 80th anniversary of
VE Day, 8 May 2025: What
was happening in Warsaw and Prague
as Londoners and New Yorkers celebrated the defeat
of Nazi Germany.
go with the flow
The
neuroscience and psychology of speed. Goodwood
Spring 2025
dope girls 2025!
It's a hundred years and more since the period I explored in Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, which first appeared in 1992 and was reissued in 2003. Now the book has inspired a BBC drama series of the same name, and that's provided the cue for a major update. Among other upgrades, the new edition has an introduction that reflects on how attitudes to drugs have changed over the last twenty years, and some sensational new historical revelations that have come to light during that time.
I
visited the Bureau
of Lost Culture for a podcast chat about
Dope Girls, 1 September 2024.
kupala BRIGHTON: EXPLORING A UKRAINIAN MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL IN AN ENGLISH CITY
Kupala organiser Vladyslava Bondar and I wrote this article for Gramarye, the journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, Summer 2024.
What lies beneath
Discovering
new connections with ancient Sussex
landscapes, illuminated by lasers. Goodwood
Summer 2024
'kupala is coming home to europe'
An interview
with me and Kupala organiser Vladyslava Bondar
about the Ukrainian midsummer festival and its new
home in Brighton, for Lossi 36.
rAZOM: DRAWING TOGETHER
What the Razom Ukrainian
gathering in Brighton has become, nearly two
years on.fairytale of rothenburg
The Christmas market in the
old German town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, and a
story that the tourism service doesn't
tell.