Josephine Quinn

Oct 30, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Josephine Quinn

My first visit​ to the British Museum was on a date, and under duress. My objection wasn’t to elite cultural institutions or stolen goods, but to visiting a museum about Britain. I was studying classics to get away from all that. I can still remember the bewilderment of walking into those first long galleries with their five-legged bulls and giant stone kings. I saw the Rosetta Stone and burst into tears.

Sep 27, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Rumaan Alam |Josephine Quinn |Garth Greenwell

The Reviews Are In! Best Reviewed Books of September 2024The start of fall brings cooler, cozier weather, and most importantly — great reading. Grab your softest blanket, warmest beverage and take a look through September’s finest. From history to memoirs, literary fiction and mysteries, these are our best reviewed books of the month. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.

Aug 7, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Josephine Quinn |Malin Hay

Your browser does not support the audio element. In the 160s CE, Rome was struck by a devastating disease which, a new book argues, may have been the world’s first pandemic. Galen began his career treating ’the protracted plague’ with viper flesh, opium and urine, but despite his extensive documentation, we still don’t know what a modern diagnosis would be.

Mar 18, 2024 | waterstones.com | Josephine Quinn

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Feb 29, 2024 | waterstones.com | Josephine Quinn

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it. The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the true story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe.