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‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

November 14, 2024
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EUP75: Our Publishing in Law

Law / Publishing / Scots Law

Discover the story of Law at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 17, 2024

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Q&A with the author

Classics and Ancient History / Cultural History / World History

Petya Andreeva, author of Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea, explores the journey to writing her book in this Q&A.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 15, 2024

Three Unruly Natures that figure in the Ecology of Empire Writing

Language and Literature

If Empire is, as Neel Ahuja suggests, a “project in the Government of species”, then it stands to reason that empire writing must either...

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 10, 2024

Relationality in Times of War

A wall is covered in a graffiti mural of two young girls laughing together, one wears the colours of the Palestinian flag, the other wears the colours of the Israeli flag

International Relations / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Language and Literature / Politics

How do British and German cultural works establish relationality between Israel and Palestine?

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 9, 2024

Fascism at the Limits of Capitalism

Philosophy / Political Philosophy

Reading Marx’s 'Capital' with Deleuze and Guattari

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 4, 2024

Hosting the University Press Redux Conference

Publishing

In May 2024, Edinburgh University Press hosted the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) University Press Redux Conference.…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 28, 2024

A Nation Built on Books: The Role of Libraries in Modern Scotland

The facade of the National Library of Scotland.

Language and Literature / Publishing / Scottish History / Scottish Literature / Scottish Studies

Scotland's National Librarian discusses the place of libraries in our cultural landscape.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 18, 2024

How to be a Jacobean courtier – the ambitious man’s guide

Language and Literature / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

The author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters explains what the story of Thomas Overbury reveals about success at the court of James VI and I.

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 14, 2024

Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?

A portion of an aged magazine clipping shows a woman pointing two guns towards the viewer, with the words 'neither victim nor assassin' above

Gender Studies / Politics

…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war,…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJune 13, 2024

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history