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Powerful versions of what the future holds have excited reassured and terrified people for centuries. Driven as much by quackery as informed by genuine insight, they have ranged from end-of-days narratives to predictions of the withering away of the state. Despite Jean-François Lyotard’s proposition at the end of the 1970s that the current, postmodern condition […]

  In this fast-paced digital world where too often discovery, risk and reward overshadow ethical approaches and outcomes, getting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) balance right is one of the biggest challenges facing us today. And as we begin this fourth industrial revolution it is becoming clear that public trust and community confidence in AI presents

A new report released today by independent think tank, A New Approach (ANA), shows local governments are seeing the value of arts and culture in their communities, and are responding by stepping up their financial commitment and playing a bigger role in government support for arts and culture. The report, The Big Picture: public expenditure

Dr Margaret Rose FRHistS FAHA’s article ‘In Memoriam: World War I Memorials by the Australian Sculptor Margaret Baskerville (1861-1930)’ focuses on Baskerville’s memorial for Edith Louisa Cavell, an English nurse executed by German firing squad in 1915. Through her account of Baskerville and the Edith Cavell memorial, which quickly became a meeting place for nurses

Using sources such as soldier’s diaries, trench journals, and wartime magazines, this research by our Fellows moves beyond the panoramic view of the War and its economic, social, and political consequences, to a more detailed consideration of the personal and intimate experiences of soldiers. Dr Peter Cochrane FAHA’s article ‘Diamonds of the Dustheap: Diaries from