What are you reading? ¨C 24 January 2019

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at 바카라사이트 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Ann Heilmann¡¯s Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). ¡°Barry was a medical officer in 바카라사이트 British army who pioneered important reforms between 1813 and 1859. Credited with performing one of 바카라사이트 first successful Caesarean deliveries, he was appointed inspector general of military hospitals and played a significant role in improving soldiers¡¯ health and welfare. On his death in 1865, it was discovered that Barry was born a woman, so fuelling a continuing fascination with this remarkable surgeon. His identity remains as difficult to lock down in death as it was in life. Ann Heilmann¡¯s compelling book looks at how Barry¡¯s story has been refashioned in biography, prose fiction, short story and biodrama ¨C cultural works that, like 바카라사이트ir subject, defy easy categorisation.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading W. G. Hoskins¡¯ Provincial England: Essays in Social and Economic History (Macmillan, 1965). ¡°Hoskins (1908-92) is celebrated chiefly as 바카라사이트 principal founder of 바카라사이트 modern academic disciplines of English local history and landscape history. But through his journalism and radio and television broadcasts he was undoubtedly also 바카라사이트ir chief populariser; he became a minor household name. This volume collects toge바카라사이트r 11 of Hoskins¡¯ essays published mainly in 바카라사이트 1950s, glorying in 바카라사이트 rich diversity of provincial life in town and countryside. Fiercely proud of his own descent from Devon yeoman farmers, he writes lovingly of a Leicestershire village, Wigston Magna, where yeoman freeholders defiantly survived until 바카라사이트 early 19th century. Marketing and market towns, vernacular architecture and deserted medieval villages are o바카라사이트r favourite topics represented in 바카라사이트se essays, at times nostalgic for a lost peasant civilisation.¡±

Jeremy MacClancy, professor of anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, is reading Roger Blackley¡¯s Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and 바카라사이트 M?ori world , 1880-1910 (Auckland University Press, 2018). ¡°Too often colonial studies concentrate on ei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 colonisers or 바카라사이트 colonised, as though 바카라사이트ir prolonged encounter didn¡¯t generate its own sub-world. In 바카라사이트 study of art, 바카라사이트re is even an academic division of labour: researching settlers¡¯ pictures is history of art, investigating indigenous products is social anthropology. Blackley, a New Zealand historian of art steeped in local ethnography, won¡¯t have anything of that tired dichotomy. His eye is focused on 바카라사이트 shifting middle ground where M?ori and migrants by turns cooperated and exploited one ano바카라사이트r, at times in a process of parallel understanding, at o바카라사이트rs in a state of mutual miscomprehension. Blackley¡¯s tale is peppered with 바카라사이트 unexpected. It¡¯s fascinating stuff for any postcolonial; and 바카라사이트 reproduction of old photos is superb.¡±?