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  • Q&A with Benjamin Dalton: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

    Q&A with Benjamin Dalton about his new book, which journeys through philosophy, literature, film and (neuro)science to discover how our bodies and brains transform throughout life.

    January 8, 2026
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“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 2)

A group photo of the cast of The Odd Women
  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV

by Tom Ue Continued from Part 1 Your integration of The Taming of the Shrew when describing Rhoda and Everard…

  • ByKevin Worrall
  • OnOctober 10, 2022
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“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 1)

A group photo of the cast of The Odd Women
  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV

by Tom Ue George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) opens, in 1872, with Dr Madden declaring his intention to…

  • ByKevin Worrall
  • OnOctober 10, 2022

Researching the History of British Film Finance

  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV

by James Chapman Big research projects take a while to bear fruit. In the case of The Money Behind the…

  • ByDaniel Miele
  • OnOctober 7, 2022

Xenophon’s Anabasis in 16 Pictures

  • Classics and Ancient History / Cultural History / History

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.

  • ByKirsty Crosbie
  • OnOctober 5, 2022

Surveying the Anthropocene: Endangered wildlife: the threats to seabirds, and the use of rephotography

  • Cultural Studies

by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…

  • ByDaniel Miele
  • OnSeptember 29, 2022

The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship    

  • Cultural Studies / Literary Studies

This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.

  • ByKirsty Crosbie
  • OnSeptember 9, 2022

The Global Sphere of Academia: Writing in a Second Language

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By Alex Oxford As Chris discussed on the blog in March, Early Career Researchers are often thrust headfirst into the…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnSeptember 9, 2022

Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry

  • Literary Studies

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.’

  • ByKirsty Crosbie
  • OnSeptember 8, 2022

Richard III, Thomas More and ‘Jane’ Shore: A royal mistress and a royal mystery

Oil painting of King Edward V and Richard, the Duke of York dressed in black sporting gold necklaces
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by Tim Thornton The Princes in the Tower The discovery of King Richard III’s body under a Leicester carpark in…

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  • OnSeptember 1, 2022
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