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Interview with Maggie Humm
Read more: Interview with Maggie HummMaggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 1)
by Tom Ue George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) opens, in 1872, with Dr Madden declaring his intention to…
Researching the History of British Film Finance
by James Chapman Big research projects take a while to bear fruit. In the case of The Money Behind the…
Xenophon’s Anabasis in 16 Pictures
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.
Surveying the Anthropocene: Endangered wildlife: the threats to seabirds, and the use of rephotography
by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…
The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.
The Global Sphere of Academia: Writing in a Second Language
By Alex Oxford As Chris discussed on the blog in March, Early Career Researchers are often thrust headfirst into the…
Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry
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.’
Richard III, Thomas More and ‘Jane’ Shore: A royal mistress and a royal mystery
by Tim Thornton The Princes in the Tower The discovery of King Richard III’s body under a Leicester carpark in…
Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is…