How did Abū Naṣr Yehuda, a Jewish landowner from 11th-century Bāmiyān, conduct his business affairs with his Muslim neighbors? What…
Category: Cultural History
In 1998, the celebrated lesbian film scholar B. Ruby Rich wrote: ‘I don’t want to make the mistake of falling…
By Marc Abramiuk, archaeologist and applied anthropologist The central Helmand Valley of Afghanistan is the name I use to describe…
Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…
Cultural History
What We Were Left: Re-tracing the Political Aftermath of the First World War for Britain and Ireland
Mark Quigley,University of Oregon With commemorations of the 1918 Armistice this past November, four years of centennial reckonings with the…
As it enters its second year of publication, Warwick Ball reflects on the emerging themes and (accidental) article pairings in…
In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus…
John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…
In the summer of 2015, Kelly Reichardt agreed to discuss career and production details with E. Dawn Hall and Allison…
Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…