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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
Edinburgh University Press
5 Women from History Who Dared to be Dangerous
For this International Women’s Day, editor Ben Fletcher-Watson celebrates five trailblazing women who dared to make history
How long has there been a “modern” English literature?
by A. Robert Lee In this ambitious new study A. Robert Lee tackles the question of how, and why, a given selection of English literary writings can assume the mantle of “modern.” To this end Moderns – Chaucer to Contemporary…
The Orange Order: A Global History
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.
Abel Ferrara – A New Perspective on a Cult Auteur
by Florian Zappe Abel Ferrara is one of the most uncompromising and provocative filmmakers of his generation. From his early exploitation roots to his philosophical and deeply personal later works, Ferrara has carved out a unique space in cinema—blurring the…
Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry
A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.
Catastrophic Technology: Perspectives on the end of the world
Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology
When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s
Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.
He Stuttered: A Letter from Gilles Deleuze
Dorothea Olkowski reflects on the work of Gilles Deleuze through a letter she received from him at the inception of Deleuze studies.
A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish Parliament
David McCrone explores public opinion on the devolved Scottish Parliament over the past 25 years.
Shakespeare’s Instability
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…