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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
by Patricia Pisters Watching horror movies Previously, I truly disliked horror films. In the late 1980s Brian de Palma’s Carrie…
Introducing Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
by Deanna Ferree Womack and Philip Michael Forness Series editors Deanna Ferree Womack and Philip Michael Forness introduce our latest…
Making the Census Count: Edinburgh 1760-1900
By Richard Rodger You might think that with a commitment to Open Data and Open Access from the Scottish Government…
Sexual abuse survivors: forgotten victims of ACEs?
By Sarah Nelson In Scotland and internationally, most policy on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has placed overwhelming emphasis on children.…
Aristotle and the Open Future
By Jason W. Carter How much do we know about the future? Some people think that we can know a…
Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past
By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
How COVID-19 crisis measures reveal the conflation between poverty and adversity
By Morag Treanor Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are defined as stressful events in childhood argued to have devastating consequences on…
A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research
By Louise Chapman In 2012, I uncovered an array of boxes containing 177 items of dress in the School of…
Inventing London on Blackfriars Bridge, 1896: Part Two
By Sean Cubitt Catch up with Part One of this blog post. Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema…