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Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval MediterraneanI would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
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by Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi How did patients feel when visiting mission hospitals built by British missionaries in Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? I am preoccupied with this question in my book, Emotion, Mission, Architecture:…
A common language and shared understanding of family violence? Corpus approaches in support of system responses to family violence
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by Tonya N. Stebbins and Cara Penry Williams In an age where women are increasingly active in the workforce and have historically high rates of engagement with education, the lack of safety many experience in their own homes is profoundly…
Making the News – A History of Scottish Newspapers
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by Hamish Fraser With the readership of daily newspapers at the present day falling drastically and local newspapers struggling to survive, a study of Scottish newspapers in their heyday is timely. In the century after 1850, it was from newspapers…
Writing about the People of Iraq
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by Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani 23 March 2023 marked the twentieth anniversary of the attack on Iraq. Predictably, western mainstream media made little or no reference to contemporary Iraqi culture. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in…
Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay
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by Mario Aquilina and Nicole B. Wallack On 29 March 2023, two of the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, Mario Aquilina (The University of Malta) and Nicole B. Wallack (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) led a roundtable with…
An Introduction to the Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics
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by Reem Bassiouney When my monograph Arabic Sociolinguistics was published in 2008, it provided an overview of a growing, but still not widely recognized field of research. In the years that elapsed until 2020 (when the second edition of the…
Q&A with Leandro Losada on ‘Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World’
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by Leandro Losada Tell us a bit about your book. Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940 pursues two comparative approaches. One is the history of liberal and anti-liberal political thinking. The other is the reception of Machiavelli’s works in…
5 Contemporary Comedies by Working-Class Women You Need to Watch
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by Laura Minor Following the success of several working-class women who have created original comedy series in the UK, such as Carla Lane, Victoria Wood, Kay Mellor, and Caroline Aherne, the 2010s (and onwards) have seen an increase in working-class…
A Q&A with John Price on ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler
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by John Price Tell us a bit about your book ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler is a collection of critical essays, by contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, on one of the most successful and awarded directors of…
Adrian Brunel: The Systematic Jackdaw
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by Josephine Botting Approaching an archival collection the scale of Adrian Brunel’s is a daunting prospect. Every box contains a hotchpotch of items, which at first defy coherence: snapshots, letters, diaries, cuttings, contracts, scribblings on scraps of paper, legal summons…