The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is where the belief…
Author: Teri Williams
CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary is five years old! To celebrate the occasion, Edinburgh University Press…
Many of the themes regularly used for life-guidance based on Stoic philosophy can help with responding to the current coronavirus…
Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the value of injustice…
Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have…
By Antoine Dechêne A few months ago, my wife and I were having one of our numerous chats about the…
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author…
By Heike Henderson What can contemporary techno thrillers tell us about possible future developments in the areas of surveillance, data…
I came to crime fiction studies through the back door. Like many people, I grew up reading mysteries. Franklin W….
British History
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…