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Caroline Humphrey and Rupert Stasch May 15, 2016 The ten entries in this year’s “Images Fresh from the Field” competition were all richly deserving of awards, and it was very difficult to choose among them. The judges sought to evaluate the submissions according to their technical, aesthetic, and epistemological features...

There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler by Dr Anthony Pickles This short article aimed at a general audience shows that while gambling is thought to be a ubiquitous part of human nature, this is just a fiction borne out of familiarity. Many parts of the world didn't have gambling, at least until the last 150 years...

We're delighted to announce that Dr Andrew Sanchez will be joining us in September 2016 as a new University Lecturer. Dr Sanchez, who took his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2009, is the author of Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India (Routledge, 2015), which describes and analyses...

As Mongolia confronts the confusion of change in the modern world, Dr David Sneath describes how the country has sought solace in traditions of landscape and in the glories of the past. Listen to ‘Keeping in Steppe’ with Dr David Sneath on BBC iPlayer Radio. A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3, first broadcast on 7...