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...public discourse about religions and to reduce religious forms of intolerance. It is important to recognise the extent to which this early scholarship was structured by white supremacy but also to acknowledge that other resources also inhabit these texts which can be put to work towards a reflexive, decolonial anthropology and sociology of religion. Suggested Reading List...

...publication did in the end present the tunes with their Welsh words. [A portrait of Lady Llanover and a photograph of Maria Jane Williams side by side.]Left: Lady Llanover (painted in 1862 by Mornewicke), wearing the Welsh ‘traditional’ dress for which she is best known. (Image: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales) Right: Maria Jane Williams, photographed in later...

...public taste in popular music, and has become increasingly important to the films’ commercial strategies. Over the years themes have been sung by Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney & Wings, Duran Duran, and Madonna. The theme song for No Time to Die was co-written and sung by Billie Eilish, and won the award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 63rd Annual Grammy...

...public spaces) that have long concerned art historians. Art History can be headline news. Art History as a subject has changed a lot over the last few decades – yet some of the most exciting changes may still be to come. In 2023 I visited the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art to ask a small group of art historians about what they do, and how and why they do...

...public house of considerable size standing near the crossing of four roads; a substantial parsonage-house, hidden in trees; and a hall neither attractive to the antiquary nor pleasing to the artist, in its exterior, but pleasantly placed and agreeably relieved by foliage. Quite apart from the village - border on its western side by the park, on its eastern and northern by...