Maciej Kurzynski discusses how embracing new language models can revolutionise literary studies.
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.
How have diasporas and migrants contributed to the rise of the US as a great political, economic, scientific, and cultural power?
Umit Eser explores authoritarianism in post-Ottoman geographies by investigating the origins of organised violence and ethnic cleansings at the beginning of the twentieth century
by Eve Lacey Earlier this year, we shared the exciting news that Eve Lacey won the 2024 Donald G. Davis Article Award for her article, ‘The Role of Halkevi Libraries in the Early Turkish Republic,’ published in the journal, Library &…
Petya Andreeva, author of Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea, explores the journey to writing her book in this Q&A.
by Angus Mitchell In January 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, undertook a trip to Angola on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her mission: to highlight the plight of landmine victims. With an entourage of photographers, journalists,…
by Sarah Keenan It’s easy to get lost at the British Museum. The expansive central London building, set out over three floors and divided up into over 60 galleries, displays some 80,000 objects from all over the world. The British…
by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…
Tell us a bit about your book My book is about the situation in Syria before, during and after the first crusaders arrived in the near east. The crusader armies arrived in Syria in 1097 and immediately began interacting with…