Charlotte L Riley
Charlotte L Riley is a lecturer in 20th-century history at the University of Southampton.
Articles by Charlotte L Riley
Book review: Stories from a migrant city
Ben Rogaly's book on Peterborough, a Leave-voting city on the edge of the Fens, challenges our ideas about cosmopolitanism.
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The empire strikes back
Many pundits connect Brexit to imperial nostalgia – but its relationship with national identity is complex.
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A woman’s scorn
In the age of Trump and #MeToo comes a timely challenge to the idea that female anger is irrational.
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Scaling the tower
A new book by Niall Ferguson offers a simple and apparently scientific way to understand history. Does the analysis stand up?
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How a history of conquest shapes the present
A century ago, European empires dominated much of the planet. Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley ask what we can learn from the past.
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