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The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Read more: The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration FundVéronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Rhythm and Critique
Sunil Manghani explores how rhythm came to be one of the most productive terms for critical enquiry into our social, political and cultural lives, and looks to the future of research into rhythm.
Feeling Flat: London Housing in Times of Change and Crisis (part 2)
Thanksgiving Model Buildings An article published in The Lady’s Newspaper in 1851 makes an explicit connection between creative production –…
Feeling Flat: London Housing in Times of Change and Crisis
If she were earning a living wage, the amount of time it would take to purchase the flat – only 393 square feet in size – would require 21, 874 hours of labour. In so many hours, Morison estimated, a person could read the bible 309.54 times, gestate 3.26 babies, or complete 2.48 lifetimes worth of pub visits.
Placemaking in a pandemic
How we make place and have a sense of belonging in a pandemic is such a very different experience than many of us have usually experienced.
Confusion and disorientation in Edward Yang’s Terrorizers
Confusing films Watching narrative films can be one of the most engrossing aesthetic experiences possible. It can also be completely…
Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin
By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative…
Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Five)
In the final part of this five-part series on African American film, Geetha Ramanathan discusses 2017 hit “Get Out” alongside…
Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Four)
In part four of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan uses two examples to consider how African American films of the…
Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Three)
In part three of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan explores the use of American mythology and folklore in two African…