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Category: Cultural History

Pedro David de Oliveira Castello Branco: Suffocation #12, from project ‘Hardwood’, Cerrado, Brazil
Cultural History

Surveying the Anthropocene: Destruction of natural systems: forests

posted by Daniel Miele April 12, 202210 min read107 Views

by Patricia Macdonald This is the first of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…

Cultural History

Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan

posted by Teri Williams December 14, 20215 min read174 Views

By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…

A photo of the Melville Monument
British History

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 3: A case study in the ethics of academic and public history)

posted by Kevin Worrall November 12, 20217 min read187 Views

Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1 and 2? Read them here! Part 1Part 2 The Scottish Historical Review was the natural…

The Melville monument overlooking the Edinburgh skyline
British History

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

posted by Kevin Worrall November 10, 20217 min read410 Views

Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in…

Cultural History

Jean-Luc Nancy and Paragraph

posted by Teri Williams September 28, 20218 min read138 Views

By Peggy Kamuf In tribute to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose death was announced in August, Peggy Kamuf looks back on a…

A picture of the ceiling of dome to Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine
Cultural History

The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

posted by Kevin Worrall September 13, 20214 min read261 Views

by Shivan Mahendrarajah The Taliban are back in power, ushering in renewed fears of destruction of cultural heritages. Their first…

Cultural History

The Politics of ‘Acting’: Why Cast Comedians?

posted by Teri Williams July 28, 20217 min read154 Views

By Neil Archer What makes a performance ‘truthful’? In one of my previous professional lives, as an actor, this question…

Cultural History

Shakespeare in the North: Nation, Race and Haircuts

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 27, 20218 min read110 Views

by Adam Hansen I got a post-‘lockdown #3’ haircut in my Tyneside town recently, to my relief, and everyone else’s. …

Cultural History

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

posted by Teri Williams January 19, 20218 min read362 Views

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

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

posted by Teri Williams January 7, 20219 min read137 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century…

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