Read the introductory article to our recently released Northern Scotland: Black Lives Matter virtual collection, which can be found on…
Category: History
Poetry aficionados, media archaeologists and scholars of modernism might have heard of the ‘godfather of the e-reader’ Bob Brown, and his infamous ‘Reading Machine’ – but his wife Rose is an equally compelling figure. In fact, her story changes how we understand the connections between technological and literary innovation, and their capacity to promote social change, and with one exception, it has remained untold.
By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative…
Biography is a dangerous genre for any historian. Inevitably it has to be set in the history of the subject’s…
The oldest layers of the surviving Zoroastrian texts are in Avestan language and commonly dated to the middle of the second millennium BCE. Exact dates and circumstances of composition, however, remain uncertain, so that little is known about the socio-political context from which these texts emerged. After two millennia of oral transmission, the texts were finally committed to writing, at a time when the language must have no longer been in active use.
By Siân Reynolds When we were preparing this special issue of Nottingham French Studies (59: 2) which I have guest-edited,…
Richard Canning interviews Kate Levey, Brigid Brophy’s daughter, on her thoughts on mother, her writing and her influence.
By Anne Siebels Peterson Aristotle did not merely engage widely in natural science. He articulated the distinctive methods and principles…
By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The…
A Q&A with Gavin Miller, author of Miracles of Healing, an investigation of the relationship between religion and psychotherapy in…