Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
Adapting or recasting the formal experiments of their modernist forebears...Here is a brief tour of five places where modernism survived well into the second half of the twentieth century.
by Tom Ue Continued from Part 1 Your integration of The Taming of the Shrew when describing Rhoda and Everard…
by Tom Ue George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) opens, in 1872, with Dr Madden declaring his intention to…
by James Chapman Big research projects take a while to bear fruit. In the case of The Money Behind the…
This selection of sixteen photographs together with the accompanying descriptions by Xenophon aim to provide a sense of the travel experience from the journey’s beginning at Sardis to the army’s famous sighting of the Black Sea from the mountains south of modern Trabzon.
by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.
By Alex Oxford As Chris discussed on the blog in March, Early Career Researchers are often thrust headfirst into the…
The work and life of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) were, in Bill Clinton’s words, a gift to the world: ‘His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives.’