The past is never
quite past.

Cultural history

Sample article: The lives hidden in the margins

What marginalia, doodles and side notes can tell us about the people who lived in the shadow of the main story.

Illustrative sample, not Laura’s published writing.

Memory & identity

Sample article: Who gets to write history?

History is not just what happened, but who remembers, who explains and who is left out.

Illustrative sample, not Laura’s published writing.

Current

When the world falters, we turn to the past

From medieval kings to Greenland and Danish schools, we turn to the past when the present becomes difficult to understand.