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Publishing today | Italian art, spectacle and politics at the Paris Opéra by Elisa Cazzato is available now! This is the first full-length study of Ignazio Degotti (1758-1824), the chief scenographer of the Paris Opéra during the French Revolution.

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Book cover for Elisa Cazzato’s Italian art, spectacle and politics at the Paris Opéra, highlighting that the book reconstructs Ignazio Degotti’s influential career as an eighteenth‑century scenographer, shown with a pencil portrait and publisher logos (Liverpool, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford).
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New in the Journal of the British Academy:

Davina Cooper, Lydia Morris, Shirin M. Rai, Mike Savage, and Sylvia Walby come together to explore the concept of society’s potential to be otherwise and the methodological and evidentiary questions this raises.

Read for free: doi.org/10.5871/jba/...

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By revaluing the important contribution of provincial poets within French and European poetic history, ‘Poetry in the Provinces’ offers a richer, more diverse understanding of nineteenth-century literary culture and the idea of “Frenchness”.
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Promotional graphic for the book Poetry in the Provinces: Reclaiming Provincialism in Nineteenth-Century France by Valentina Gosetti. The graphic features the book cover alongside a close-up of a still-life painting showing a bottle, bread, onions, vegetables and an egg. Text highlights the book's revaluation of nineteenth-century provincial poets, its challenge to Paris-centred literary hierarchies, and its contribution to a more inclusive understanding of Frenchness. Liverpool University Press logo appears in the lower right.
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World Mental Health Day 2026 | Author of Making Madness Visible, Alvise Sforza Tarabochia guides the reader through five images from their monograph, which depict madness historically.

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The book is richly illustrated with photographs and images from across several archives, including the collections of Historic England. A selection of photographs from the book are shared here ⬇️

Aerial view of Dover Castle from the north, showing the great tower, built for Henry II between 1182 and 1188, at its centre. Henry II's contemporary square-towered inner curtain wall surrounds it, and at lower left, on the outer curtain wall, can be seen the 'beaked' towers of the 13th century. [© Historic England Archive]Aerial view of Clifford's Tower, York, from the south-east. Begun in 1246 for Henry III on an earlier motte, it is one of the best-preserved shell keeps built to a single design and unique in its four-lobed plan. [© Historic England Archive]The late 11th-century gateway to Richmond Castle, viewed from the bailey – simply an arched opening in the curtain closed by gates, although flanked by engaged columns with sculptured capitals. [Steven Baker © Historic England Archive, DP184292]The north-west side of the bailey of Warwick Castle, showing Caesar's Tower (right) and Guy's Tower (extreme left), both 14th century and variants of the 'great tower' tradition. They housed high-status lodgings, and Caesar's Tower a basement prison (see Fig. 2.3). Between them is the main gatehouse. [© Edward Impey]
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