Britain has long had a contradictory relationship to movie stardom, as two articles from the fan magazine Picturegoer, both by…
Category: History
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…
Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…
At just the age of 34, Bill Readings sadly died in a plane crash. He left behind a legacy of…
The benefit of studying Gaelic poetry in conjunction with conventional documentary sources to obtain a fuller understanding of the past…
An extract from the introduction of Spanish Erotic Cinema, edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez If there is something that the various…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…