Author Archives: robhunt510

Thirteen years ago, on May 14 2007, I set off on a Sea France ferry from the port of Dover headed across La Manche for Calais, almost forty-four kilometres away in France. Four hundred and twelve years ago a man … Continue reading →

There’s that bit at the beginning of the old Mission Impossible TV series when Jim, the one before Ethan, chooses his perfect team for the impossible mission from a cardboard folder of resting B-list actors while Lalo Schifrin’s theme plays … Continue reading →

Here’s a journey for 2019, and the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus.

Nine years ago I started walking the Betwixt Project in Calais, having taken the boat from Dover on the Kent coast. A flu flattened me on that first day. Today looking over some of the first posts I made I do … Continue reading →

Following fiction: even better. Riddle of the Sands

we are dealing with the very first instance of an accommodation of sovereign nation states – moreover, the first generation of particularly self-confident nation states with their own imperial pasts – to the postnational constellation of an emerging world society…

Almost as soon as Vera Frankl finished editing The Best Read Office, our programme about the readers at the British Library, I was back at my Humanities One desk being asked by the woman opposite me if I had written … Continue reading →