Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history. With fascinating lives on every page, the concise entries illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to…
When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my professor laughed. She laughed because it was a well-known fact among Egyptologists that there was little evidence for this period…
Once known primarily as the author of ‘twee’ children’s books about fastidious mice and naughty rabbits, Beatrix Potter has gained recognition in recent years for her wide-ranging accomplishments as a conservationist, mycologist and scientific illustrator. In the 1890s, before embarking…
From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.
Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation
John J. Joseph, editor of Last Lectures, talks about the process of bringing Émile Benveniste to an English-speaking audience. ‘It’s been a great privilege for me to play a role in making Benveniste’s last lectures available to a wider audience.’…
James Williams argues that one of the main lessons of the search for an egalitarian sublime is that exceptional achievements in sports should not be called 'sublime'.
What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.
Catherine Belsey discusses our love for ghost stories. Follow her on a spine-tingling journey of our facination with Christmas hauntings.