By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
Category: Cultural History
Catherine Belsey explores throughts of ghosts in a time of COVID-19, its impact on our towns, streets and transport around the world.
Read the blog post to find out more about writing the newly published book Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by…
Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have…
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately…
From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.
The idea of the death-wish has haunted the history of psychoanalysis in its encounters with cognitive disability. But who is…
Read on to find out about the latest research content you can access and read for free this month, from…
By Stefan Kamola, author of Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh Early in 1839, Professor of Linguistics…