Media and Other News
- Reviews of my Research (since 2008)
- Media Articles and Reviews (since 2008)
- Radio and Television Interviews (since 2008)
- Festival Presentations (since 2008)
1. Reviews of my Research (since 2008)
Anastaziya Tataryn, "The Dizzying Pursuit of Meaning -- Circling an Ideal, Since 1791", Theory and Event, 15.1, 2012
Rob Boddice, “What It Means To Be Human”, Reviews in History, 26 January 2012
John Gray, “Are Women Animals?”, The Guardian, 26 October 2011
Paul Binding, “What It Means To Be Human”, The Independent, January 2012
Helen Brown, “What It Means To Be Human”, The Telegraph, January 2012
Sheila Rowbotham, “What It Means To Be Human", The Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 October 2011
"What it Means to be Human" [second review], Sunday Business Post, 3 March 2013
Joanna Hayden, “Deconstructing the State of Humanity”, Sunday Business Post, 9 October 2011
James Williams, “It’s Hard (Not) to be Human”, PopMatters, 28 January 2012
“It Means Being Human”, Boston Globe, 1 January 2012
“What Makes Us So Special”, The Guardian Weekly,
Iain Finlayson, “What It Means to be Human”, The Times, 29 October 2011
“What It Means to be Human”, Western Morning News, October 2011
“What It Means to be Human”, Sheffield Star, 22 October 2011
“What It Means to be Human”, Doncaster Star, 22 October 2011
“What It Means to be Human”, Glasgow Eveing Times, October 2011
Tracey Loughran, “Shell-Shocked”, Reviews in History, December 2011
Elizabeth Backner, "Amnesia", March 2012
“Joanna Bourke”, Εψιλον, 15 May 2011
Iain Finlayson, “What It Means To Be Human”, The Times, 25 October 2011
Lynne Segal, "Men, Monsters and the Women who 'Ask for It'", THE, 7 December 2010,
"Fear and Anxiety", Dutch Television, 25 May 2010
Melanie Newman, "'Rape Fantasy' Author Aims to Suppress Negative Review", The Times Higher Education, 19 January 2010
Nalalia Aspesi, "Una Storia Violenza Sessuale", La Repubblica, 31 Marzo 2009, 43
"Rape", Donna Moderna (Italian), February 2009
"Rape", Vanity Fair Italy, February 2009
"La Guerre en ek Siglo XX: Viaje al Corazón de las Tinieblas", Clio, 2009, 78-83
Rita de Cássia Bovo de Loiola, "Fear", Galileu Magazine (Brazil), December 2009
"Joanna Bourke", El Pais Semanal (Madrid), 2009, 28-33
"Rape", Luita, 2009
"Matar como placer", El Periodico de Catalunya, 3 November 2008
Ian Jack, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Not Fearing Enough", The Guardian, 11 October 2008
Heather Thompson, "And God Made Woman", The Observer, 27 July 2008
Daniel Snowman, "Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present", History Today, February 2008
Alex Renton, "The Rape Epidemic", The Observer, 2 December 2007
Isabella Thomas, "Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present", The Sunday Times, 18 November 2007
"Triumphs and Tribulations", The Guardian, 24 November 2007
Jean Seaton, "An Endless Story of Violence", The Guardian, 20 October 2007
Libby Brooks, "British Women's Right to Choose is Under Covert Attack", The Guardian, 17 October 2007
Vic Groskop, "How Do They Still Get Away With it?", The Observer, 14 October 2007
Joan Smith, "Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present", The Times, 12 October 2007
Eithne Farry, "Why Aren't We More Outraged?", The Guardian, 5 October 2007
2. Authored Press Articles and Reviews (since 2008)
92. Review of Peter Mandler's Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, BBC History Magazine, July 2013
91, Review of Jean France's Cruel Modernity,Times Higher Education, June 2013
90. Review of James Dawes' Evil Men, in Times Higher Education, 30 May 2013
89. "Anti-Vietnam Protests", BBC History Magazine, August 2013
88. "The Smog of 1952", BBC History Magazine, July 2013
87. "Women Campaign for Pain Relief in Childbirth", BBC History Magazine, June 2013
87. Gresford Mining Disaster", BBC History Magazine, May 2013
86. "First World War Amputees", BBC History Magazine, April 2013
85. "The Pity of War. Pat Barker's 'Toby's Room'", The Lancet, 2 February 2013
84. "History of Film. Newsreel Footage of Queen Victoria's Funeral Procession in 1901,", BBC History Magazine, March 2013
83. Review of Neil McKenna's Fanny and Stella: the Young Men who Shocked Victorian England, in BBC History Magazine, March 2013
82. Review of Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day, in BBC History Magazine, February 2013
81. Review of Laura Wittman's The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Mortality, February 2012
80. "Another Battle Front", The Great War, 64, (November 2012)
79. Review of Will Self's Umbrella, in The Lancet, 6 October 2012
78. Review of Anne de Courcy’s The Fishing Fleet. Husband-Hunting in the Raj, in BBC History Magazine, November 2012
77. Review of Clark Lawlor’s From Melancholia to Prozac. A History of Depression, in History Today, September 2012
76. Review of Pat Thane and Tanya Evans’, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in 20th Century England, in BBC History Magazine, October 2012
75. “Enjoying the High Life – Drugs in History and Culture”,The Lancet, 376 (27 November 2012), 1817
74. Review of Ryan Ashley Caldwell’s “Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib”, Times Higher Education, 12 July 2012
73. “Languages of Pain”, The Lancet, 379 (30 June 2012), 2420-21
72. Review of Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Trauma: A Social Theory, in Times Higher Education, 31 May 2012, 48-9
71. “The Long History of Dieting Fads”, The Lancet, 379 (17 March 2012), 994-5
70. Review of Tony Judt and Timothy Synder's, Thinking the Twentieth Century. Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century, The Daily Telegraph, February 2012
69. Review of James Glligan, Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous Than Others, in Times Higher Education, 5 January 2012
68. Review of Julie Anderson, War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain, in Social History of Medicine, January 2012
67. “Buckets of Bubbly. The Challenge of Communicating the Personal Horrors of War Without Luxuriating in Guilt”, TLS, 2 December 2011
66. “What Is ‘Human’?” Huffington Post, 13 December 2011
65. Review of Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind from Edmund Burk to Sarah Pallen, in Times Higher Education, 17 November 2011
64. Review of Pat Jalland, Death in War and Peace, in Journal of Social History, 2 December 2011
63. “An Insider History”, Source. The Photographic Review, winter 2011
62. Review of Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes, in The Times, 10 October 2011
61. “2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize Shortlist”, The Lancet, 378 (22 October 2011), 1454
60. Review of Robert Muchembled's “A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present”, in THE, 6 October 2011
59. Review of Simon Baron-Cohen's “Zero Degree of Empathy: A New History of Human Cruelty”, in THE, 5 May 2011
58. Review of Kwasi Kwarteng's “Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World”, in BBC History Magazine, September 2011
57. Review of Nicola Henry, War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice, in Gender and Development, 19.2, July 2011
56. Review of Virginia Nicholson, Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in War and Peace, 1939-1949, in BBC History Magazine, July 2011
55. Review of Kevin W. Saunders, Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us About Hate Speech, in Times Higher Education, 16 June 2011
54. “The Difficulty with Rape”, in The Guardian, 21 May 2011
53. “The History of Medicine and the History of Pain”, in History Today, April 2011
52. Review of Edith Cavell, in History Today, January 2011
51. “Runnymede”, in David Musgrove, 100 Places that Made Britain (Bristol: BBC Books, 2011), 88-91
50. Review of Amanda Foreman, A Nation Engulfed in Flames, in The Times, 6 November 2010
49. “Humanities Need to Get Off the Back Foot”, The Guardian, 26 November 2010
48. Review of Fiona Reid, “Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-1930”, History Today, November 2010
47. “Surgical Spirit”, BBC History Magazine, Spring 2010
46. Review of Michael J. Braddick (ed.), “The Politics of Gesture. Historical Perspectives”, History Today, August 2010
45. “Taking the Ape Cure”, BBC History Magazine, 16 June 2010
44. Review of Linda Polman's War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times, The Times, 8 May 2010
43. Review of Bernhard Schlink, Guilt About the Past, The Times, 27 February 2010
42. Review of Ana Carden-Coyne's Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War, History Today, 2010
41. Review of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse than War. Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, The Times, 16 January 2010
40. “Apocalyptic Road Movie”, The Lancet, 375 (2 January 2010), 20
39. "Treasures of Athens", History Today, December 2009
38. “Carer and Keeper”, The Lancet, 374 (12 December 2009), 1960
37. Review essay on "Historical Fiction", History Today, October 2009, 55
36. "Berlusconi danneggia l'onore degli uomini", L'Unità, 28 Agosto 2009, 16
35. "Antichrist", The Guardian, 16 July 2009
34. Review of Pieter Spierenburg, A History of Murder, History Today, June 2009
33. Review essay on Pieter Spierenburg's A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, History Today, June 2009
32. "Women Beware Women", The Guardian, 30 May 2009
31. “Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Mental Illness and Modernism”, The Lancet, 373 (23 May 2009), 1753-54
30. “Silas Weir Mitchell’s The Case of George Dedlow, The Lancet, 373 (18 April 2009), 1332-3
29. "Fear and Hope", Cultural Creative Living, 15 February 2009
28. "Making Men Into Monsters?", BBC History Magazine, February 2009
27. "Bad Boys and Insects of Evil Examined", The Guardian, 24 January 2009
26. Review of Jeffrey Lockwood, Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, The Times, 16 January 2009
25. “The Complexity of Medicine and War”, The Lancet, 373 (10 January 2009), 113-4
24. Review of Robert Muchembled's Orgasm and the West. A History of Pleasure from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, History Today, January 2009, 66
23. Review of exhibition at the Wellcome Collection (London), "The Complexity of Medicine and War", The Lancet, 373 (10 January 2009), 113-114
22. Review of Mark Honigsbaum, Living With Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, The Times, 24 October 2008
21. Review of Jennifer Heath (ed.), The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics, The Times, 8 August 2008
20. "Making an Ending", The Guardian, 21 November 2008
19. "Another Battle Front", The Guardian, 11 November 2008
18. "The Easter Rising", The Guardian, 11 November 2008
17. Review of Kristin Bumiller, In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence, Times Higher Education, 3 July 2008, 44-5
16. “The Experience of Killing”, Noter [Denmark], 177 (June 2008), 38-41
15. Review of Michael Dobbs, One Minutes to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, The Times, 7 June 2008
14. "Mini-Skirt or Burka – My Choice", The Times, 8 March 2008
13. "Emergency Funding: An Important Step Forward", New Statesman, 19 March 2008
12. "Rape Myths Past and Present", New Statesman, 10 March 2008
11. "When Killing Had to Stop", New Statesman, 7 February 2008
10. "A Painting Fit for a President", The Guardian, 1 February 2008
9. Review of Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day, The Times, 25 January 2008
8. “Another Battle Front”, part of the series of pamphlets entitled “The First World War. Day Four. The Home Front”, published by
The Guardian and The Observer, 2008
7. Review of James Vernon, Hunger: A Modern History, The Times, 23 November 2007
6. "Tyranny in Disguise", The Guardian, 30 September 2007
5. "Can Terrorism Destroy Democracy?", The Guardian, 30 September 2007
4. "Is God Democratic?", The Guardian, 29 September 2007
3. "Why Bother to Vote?", The Guardian, 29 September 2007
2. "Are Women More Democratic Than Men?", The Guardian, 29 September 2007
1. "Exile on Civvy Street", The Guardian, 3 August 2007
3. Radio and Television Interviews (since 2008)
36. "A History of Disability", BBC Radio 4, 28 May, 4 June, 5 June 2013
35. "Women in the Military", Thinking Allowed, 3 April 2013
34. "HUmanity", Nightwaves, 28 March 2013
33. "Compicty" (film), Nightwaves, 14 February 2013
32. "Rape", Nightwaves, 15 January 2013
31. "Pain and Its Meanings", The Today Programme, 7 December 2012
30. "Pain and Its Meanings", Monocle Radio, 6 December 2012
29. "Moral Panics", The Today Programme, 17 November 2012
28. "Fear", BBC World Service, 18 November 2012
27. "War Medicine", Night Waves, 12 October 2012
26. Ian Hislop's "Stiff Upper Lip", BBC2, October 2012
25. "Parade's End", BBC2, August 2012
24. "The Sex Wars", Nightwaves, 15 May 2012
23. “Animal Rights”, Nightwaves, 12 December 2011
22. “What It Means To Be Human”, “NewsTalk”, 6 October 2011
21. “What It Means To Be Human”, Women’s Hour, 4 October 2011
20 .“What It Means To Be Human”, Nightwaves, 3 October 2011
19. “The Kill Factor”, BBC World Service, 4 and 11 June 2011
18. "Michael Winterbottom", Nightwaves, 25 May 2010
17. “Corporal Punishment”, BBC4, 5 April 2011
16. “Dirt”, Nightwaves, 21 March 2011
15. “Universal History?”, Nightwaves, 2 November 2010
14. “The Myth of the Tyrannical Dad”, BBC3, June 2010
13. "ANZAC Day and the Memory of War", 25 April 2010, BBC World Service
12. "Conscientious Objectors", Thinking Allowed, 6 January 2010
11. "Fatherhood in History", Testimony Films (Steve Humphries), April 2010
10. "Rape: A History", Woman's Hour, 9 October 2009
9. "First World War Emotions", Thinking Allowed, 9 September 2009
8. "Hunger Strikes", Woman's Hour, 2 July 2009
7. "Fighting Passions", BBC2, 24 May 2009
6. "Shell Shock During World War One", BBC online, 11 May 2009
5. "Women and the Military During World War One", BBC online, 11 May 2009
4. "History of Murder", Thinking Allowed, 22 April 2009
3. "Orgasm and the West", Thinking Allowed, 10 December 2008
2. "Women Against the Vote", Thinking Allowed, 14 May 2008
1. "Sexual Violence", Night Waves, 8 October 2007
4. Festival Presentations (since 2008)
11. "Eric Hobsbawm", The Hay Festival, 26 May 2013
10. "Domestic Violence", WOW (Women of the World), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, 10 March 2013
9. "Rape", WOW (Women of the World), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, 9 March 2013
8. "Pain and kits Historical Meanings", Cultural Exchanges Festival, Leicester, 28 February 2013
7. “What It Means To Be Human”, Edinburgh Literary Festival, 16 August 2012
6. "Amnesty Writers", Edinburgh Literary Festival, 15 August 2012
5. "What It Means To Be Human", Bristol Festival, 17 May 2012
4. “What It Means To Be Human”, Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book festival,12 March 2012
3. "What It Means To Be Human", Bath Festival, 3 March 2012
2. "Journalism: The First Draft of History?", Cheltenham Festival, 16 October 2009
1. "Fear", Udine Festival, Italy, 7 May 2009
