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Language and Literature

Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing

posted by Kirsty Crosbie March 8, 20218 min read14 Views

‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…

Cultural Studies

Science, Technology & Culture: In memory of Christopher Johnson (1958-2017)

posted by Teri Williams February 24, 20219 min read50 Views

By Brigitte Nelrich Note: This blog article has been reused with kind permission from the author. The original post can…

Cultural Studies

Georgian Glasgow: Five Sites of a Forgotten Time

posted by Kirsty Crosbie February 18, 20218 min read141 Views

By Craig Lamont The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow is the first book-length study of a long-neglected period in the…

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Scottish History

The Scots at Jarama

posted by Anna Glazier February 15, 20218 min read107 Views

By Fraser Raeburn On this day 84 years ago, Scottish soldiers went into battle. For most of them, it was…

British History

Remembering the history of Scottish land reform

posted by Teri Williams February 15, 20217 min read135 Views

By Ewen Cameron I was delighted to publish Freshness, Freedom, and Peace?: Land Settlement in Scotland after the Great War …

Ancient History

Ludovic McLellan Mann: Glasgow’s original media influencer

posted by Teri Williams February 8, 20219 min read82 Views

By Kenny Brophy Decades before Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter, to be an influencer involved analogue methods, persistence, and very,…

Cultural Studies

Media and Jihad: Understanding the Meanings and Aesthetics

posted by Helena Heald February 3, 20218 min read83 Views

By Simone Pfeifer and Christoph Günther Recent violent attacks in Kabul, Dresden, Paris, or Vienna, legitimized as Jihad, urge our…

Cultural Studies

Buddhism and Cinematic Technicity-Consciousness

posted by Teri Williams February 1, 20217 min read188 Views

By Victor Fan ‘Cinematic Imaging and Imagining through the Lens of Buddhism’ (from the latest issue of Paragraph) is one…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century

posted by Helena Heald January 21, 20218 min read297 Views

by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Religion and belief are two of humanity’s oldest identity codes. Identity is intertwined with religion and,…

Cultural History

How did the Festival industry repurpose Edinburgh’s public policy making?

posted by Teri Williams January 19, 20218 min read181 Views

By Cliff Hague COVID-19 brought Edinburgh’s tourism boom to a screeching halt, and wiped out the city’s main festivals in…

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