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Thrift
Thrift and austerity
Time
Time - how do we use & how has this changed in the last 50 years?
Disasters
Disasters: from Haiti to New Orleans.
Immortality - transhumanism
Immortality and transhumanism
Cool
The origins & meaning of 'cool'
Serial killers
Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes.
Estates
Council estates - then and now. Laurie Taylor explores the concept of the 'sink estate'.
Land and territory
Land struggles: from Bolivia to Britain.
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories - their origins and evolution.
The Politics of Memorials
The Politics of Memorials - from Ireland to the Mississippi Delta.