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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
Richard III, Thomas More and ‘Jane’ Shore: A royal mistress and a royal mystery
by Tim Thornton The Princes in the Tower The discovery of King Richard III’s body under a Leicester carpark in 2012 revitalised the public’s attention to one of the most controversial figures in British history, and to the mysteries surrounding…
Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is our Mother. Rumi These words echo down through the ages from when Mevlana (”Our Master”) Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273), first…
Margaret McGowan: A Tribute
by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team – Margaret McGowan and Clement Crisp, who had each been with the journal since its inception forty years ago. I have…
Q & A with the author of Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton
by Michael Lee Tell us a bit about your book… Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton offers interpretive analyses of Val Lewton’s horror films as seen through the lens of the music within them. Lewton, who both produced…
What are Tribes? Do They Still Matter?
by Scott Weiner What is a tribe? Social scientists have long been interested in tribes, but political science has struggled to talk about them. Tribes exist on every inhabited continent and are as foundational to many states as political parties,…
Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue
Our Scottish Studies Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue has just launched, and features almost 30 journal articles and book chapters from across our Scottish Studies lists, with introductions written by Beth Cowen from Glasgow University and Ersev Ersoy and Kristian Kerr…
Ben Jonson on the Internet
Compared with video material dealing with Shakespeare, there are relatively few really helpful videos dealing with Ben Jonson, either on the internet in general or on YouTube in particular. This, of course, is also true of most “Renaissance” authors aside from “the Bard.” However, one particularly valuable video documentary dealing to some degree with Jonson (and in fact titled “Ben Jonson”) was released as part of the “ShaLT [Shakespearean London Theatres] Project”:
Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha talks Lucrecia Martel
In this interview, Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel (out now in our series ReFocus: The International Directors Series), talks about this new volume and what led her to research Martel’s work. Can you tell us a little…
He Who Got Slapped
by Alice Maurice It has been a long time since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. It’s been two whole months – by today’s standards, an eternity. Even after a week, it had been thoroughly washed and rinsed…