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  • Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

    Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

    September 25, 2025
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St. Helen’s, the East India Company and Shakespeare

by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only the end of the 16th century but the day Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to 215 London merchants for…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • May 14, 2021

Q&A with Mark Mclay, author of ‘The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–1981’

Tell us a bit about your book. My book is on recent American political history. It examines the Republican Party’s challenge to Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. It shows that leading Republicans – most notably President Ronald…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • May 11, 2021

The Lost Splendour of Ghazni: Rediscovering an Islamic Capital in Medieval Afghanistan

By Viola Allegranzi Located in present-day Afghanistan, Ghazni was once a prosperous commercial and cultural centre at the crossroads of Iranian, Central Asian and Indian regions. Under the rule of the Ghaznavid dynasty (r. 977-1186), the city was home to…

  • Teri Williams
  • May 3, 2021

Five Interesting Neighbours of Shakespeare in the 1590s

by Geoffrey Marsh Who were the most interesting ‘neighbours’ of that Living with Shakespeare explores?  I tried to follow up on all of the hundred or so families that made up the parish of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate in the 1590s.…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • April 30, 2021
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Shakespeare in the North: Nation, Race and Haircuts

by Adam Hansen I got a post-‘lockdown #3’ haircut in my Tyneside town recently, to my relief, and everyone else’s.  (You know things are getting desperate when 90% of what anyone sees onscreen in a Zoom call is not your…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • April 27, 2021

The Importance of Legacy in the Histories of Mycologists

By Nathan Smith How many animals can you name? How many plants? The answer to both questions is probably quite a few and, indeed, the total would probably number in the hundreds for both were you to sit down and…

  • Teri Williams
  • April 26, 2021

Living with Shakespeare – A Journey in Nine Acts

by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was enough to write another book. The short answer is I didn’t. While I would like to claim that Living with…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • April 23, 2021

Translation and Literature Reaches Thirty: A Little History

By Stuart Gillespie I was one of the two founding editors of this journal in 1992. Anyone involved with a publication for this long will have travelled far, and when I look back over the thirty-year lifespan of Translation and…

  • Teri Williams
  • April 21, 2021

Burns Chronicle: The Oldest Scottish Literature Journal in the World?

By the Editors & Reviews Editor, the Burns Chronicle Almost 130 years ago, in 1892, enthusiasts started publishing the Burns Chronicle and the journal has continued ever since, conveying articles of interest and news among Burns Clubs and admirers of…

  • Teri Williams
  • April 15, 2021
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