Repetition After Originality: Why Saying It Again Still Matters
This blog rethinks repetition in literature, showing how repeated forms can generate innovation, disrupt meaning, and reshape poetic practice.
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Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now
From Milton to modern politics, this blog explores how language in the seventeenth century influenced struggles over authority, belief, and freedom.
Lessons from Scottish Schools
Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.
Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’
This interview explores how John Bull became a literary and political figure in Victorian newspaper poetry during the American Civil War and the Cotton Famine.
Diversity and the Physical Reality of the Late Roman World
A new series rethinks the late Roman world, exploring its diversity, transformations, and wide-reaching historical significance.
Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
This interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
Q&A with Belal Abu-Alabbas, author of Al-Bukhārī
Belal Abu-Alabbas explores the making of the first comprehensive critical biography of Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī.
Q&A on French Horror
Q&A with Reece Goodall, author of French Horror
Five of the most unusual Sunday Opening conditions
Peter looks at how wartime Britain reshaped cinema-going on Sundays
Interview with Maggie Humm
Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.