Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made up of people of various ages, ethnicities and social classes. But what they have in common is that they identify…
When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately of traditional textiles. Indeed, when searching for information on “Scottish fashion” using Google I am immediately met with the websites…
Read on and explore the ideas behind writing Performing Ethics through Film Style book by Edward Lamberti. Levinas’s ethics in a nutshell The notion of ‘Otherness’ is other people’s differences from me and my sort of person. This can be…
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history. With fascinating lives on every page, the concise entries illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to…
When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my professor laughed. She laughed because it was a well-known fact among Egyptologists that there was little evidence for this period…
