Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

<strong>Thomas J. Sojka (@tomsojka) is a PhD candidate in history at Boston University, where he researches elite sociability, party going, and gossip in 1920s and 1930s Britain.</strong>

Thomas J. Sojka

Human Interest: On Deborah Cohen’s “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979

Ordinary People’s History: On Laura Carter’s “Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918–1979”

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England

Explicit and Confounding Books: On Christopher Hilliard’s “A Matter of Obscenity”

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Thomas J. Sojka (@tomsojka) is a PhD candidate in history at Boston University, where he researches elite sociability, party going, and gossip in 1920s and 1930s Britain.