Sean Ledwith

Sean Ledwith is a Counterfire member and Lecturer in History at York College, where he is also UCU branch negotiator. Sean is also a regular contributor to Marx and Philosophy Review of Books and Culture Matters

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Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, NATO: What You Need to Know (O/R Books 2024), 180pp.

NATO: What You Need to Know – book review

Photo reproduction of a print of the Cologne Cathedral. Date: 1855 – 1885. Photo: Rijksmuseum / CC0 1.0

Red Traces 19: Cathedrals and Classes

Toyokuni III/Kunisada (1786 - 1864). Original early 1860s. Source: sfbaywalk - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0

Red Traces 18: The birth of the novel in Feudal Japan

Monument to Al-Khawarizmi, Uzbekistan. Photo: Daniel Mennerich / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Red Traces, Part 17: The Golden Age of Islamic Science

The central plaza of Tikal, Guatemala. Source: Mark Cartwright -wikicommons / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-SA 4.0

Red Traces 16: The Maya, Mathematics and Monarchy

David Cameron. Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Unelected Foreign Secretary bangs war drum with unelected Prime Minster

Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo helmet. Photo: PDM 1.0 DEED

Red Traces, Part 15: Beowulf, Monsters and Migrations

Julius Kronberg's painting of Hypatia. Photo: Public Domain

Red Traces, Part 14: Hypatia and the end of the classical world

Rob Wallace, The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era (Monthly Review Press 2023), 512pp.

The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era – book review

Boudica | Public Domain

Red Traces, Part 13: Celts versus Romans

The siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the command of Titus, A.D. 70. Source: Oil on canvas painting by David Roberts 1850 - Wikicommon / cropped form original / public domain

Red Traces, Part 12: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Revolt

Geometric-algebraic clay tablet, Tell al-Dhabba'i, Iraq, 2003-1595 BCE. Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP / CC BY-SA 4.0

Red Traces, Part 11: The social origins of early mathematics

18th century depiction of a scene from the Mahabharata. Photo: Public Domain

Red Traces, Part 10: Caste and Class in The Mahabharata

Aeneas and Turnus by Luca Giordano, 17th century. Photo: Public Domain

Red Traces, Part 9: Virgil and the death of the Roman Republic

Epicurus. Photo: Jamie Heath / CC BY-SA 3.0. Parthenon, Athens. Photo: Weekend Wayfarers / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

Red Traces, Part 8: The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece

The revolutionary spirit of the Buddha

Red Traces, Part 7: The revolutionary spirit of the Buddha

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