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Free Thinking Festival – Landmark: Angela Carter
Joanna Kavenna, Natasha Pulley, Susannah Clapp and Christopher Frayling on Angela Carter

The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Sculpture and Seduction in the 18th Century
Danielle Thom looks at the links between bawdy prints and classical sculpture.

The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Jews in Occupied France: Coexistence with the Enemy?
Daniel Lee revisits Vichy France to uncover a different history of Jewish life there.

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Beer and the British Empire
Sam Goodman looks at the way beer was used as both beverage and medicine in Colonial India

Free Thinking Festival - The Rules Of Good Science
Jim al-Khalili, Carlos Frenk, Katy Price and Tom Shakespeare debate scientific discovery

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Inside a Pirate’s Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century
Joe Moshenska on Sir Kenelm Digby - alchemist, astrologer, diplomat and recipe collector.

The Free Thinking Festival Essay: The Medieval Scottish Dream State
Kylie Murray explores visions of Scottishness in The Wallace and The Scotichronicon.

Free Thinking Festival - Old Ways, New Directions.
"Tweeting" shepherd James Rebanks and Professor Veronica Strang on traditional thinking.

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One
Peter Mackay on what kilt wearing meant for some soldiers fighting World War One

The Free Thinking Festival Essay - Nancy Cunard: The Rebellious Heiress
Sandeep Parmar on the life of the anti racist campaigner, modernist muse and heiress