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Month: October 2018

Cultural History

A history of American horror film in 10 images

posted by Emma at EUP October 31, 20181 min read1073 Views

In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus…

Lord Seaforth
British History

Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner

posted by Emma at EUP October 29, 20185 min read1139 Views

Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…

Blackhill
Scottish History

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing

posted by Emma at EUP October 26, 20186 min read1183 Views

Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…

Photograph of a thunderstorm.
Philosophy

What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia

posted by Naomi Farmer October 23, 201810 min read1741 Views

What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia.

somatechnics monsters
Cultural Studies

Promises of Monsters

posted by Teri Williams October 22, 20183 min read1537 Views

By Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey The Monster Network has been busy doing collective work…

Cultural History

John Pollock Picks the Lock of the Mysterious ‘Shakespeare Box’

posted by Rebecca Wojturska October 15, 20187 min read1824 Views

John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…

Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Challenging Cosmopolitanism

posted by Emma at EUP October 4, 20185 min read1371 Views

The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…

Scottish History

The deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919

posted by Teri Williams October 3, 20185 min read1624 Views

‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of…

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