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Langwell, Caithness: an exemplar of the Highland economy
Read more: Langwell, Caithness: an exemplar of the Highland economyWilliam Parente explores the challenges faced by Highland communities in the time of the Clearances
Sixties British Cinema – Reconsidered!
Read Laura Mayne’s overview of the new book Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered, which re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British film history. Has here been any decade more inconsistent in the public imagination than the 1960s? Lived recollections of the…
Dialectics of Improvement: a conversation
Gerard Lee McKeever’s new book Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 is published this month in the ‘Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism’ series. To mark the occasion, Dr McKeever spoke to series co-editor Professor Penny Fielding.
Irish University Review turns 50!
Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have launched a virtual issue that is available to read for free online until the end of the year. Articles have…
Christians and Muslims: Friends or Foes?
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the history of the relationship between Christians and Muslims – A History of Christian-Muslim Relations by Hugh Goddard. Twenty years ago…
Detective storyworlds: why do you keep watching?
By Antoine Dechêne A few months ago, my wife and I were having one of our numerous chats about the latest TV series we were watching. We are indeed insatiable consumers of TV shows and loyal spectators of Netflix. Although…
Q&A with Murdo Macdonald, author of ‘Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins’
Read on to find out what inspired Murdo Macdonald to research Patrick Geddes in his new book Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins, available now on the Edinburgh University Press website. What inspired you to research Patrick Geddes? In my doctoral work…
The role of heritage in community development of the Highlands and Islands
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author of ‘History: its Key Place in the Future of the Highlands and Islands‘ from Northern Scotland 27.1 – in his…
Love Across the Atlantic
Read on to catch a glimpse of one of the chapters from Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture, edited by Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn and Theodore Louis Trost. Earlier this year, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry…
Techno thrillers, real life surveillance and data technology: mapping the future?
By Heike Henderson What can contemporary techno thrillers tell us about possible future developments in the areas of surveillance, data mining and predictive technology? In my article for the newly launched journal Crime Fiction Studies, I analyse how bestsellers by…