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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
Francophone Belgian Cinema
Twenty years ago the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta (1999) thrust Belgian cinema into the international spotlight by winning the top…
The Resilience of Nomadism and Village Life in the Heart of Helmand Valley
By Marc Abramiuk, archaeologist and applied anthropologist The central Helmand Valley of Afghanistan is the name I use to describe…
A perfect epitome: David Randall pens a sonnet for each of his new books
By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke…
Gilles Deleuze versus Process Philosophy
Arjen Kleinherenbrink argues that Deleuzian metaphysics is actually two, very separate, metaphysics.
Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey
Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…
The happiness of being sad
J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy - the happiness of being sad - through Grock the clown and Shakespeare's tragic comedies.
7 things you may not know about the history of Muslims in Central Asia
By Galina M. Yemelianova 1) There are both narrow and broad notions of Central Asia. The narrow one relates to…
Blogging From Egypt: Digital Literature, 2005-2016
Since 2005, blogging has become a significant trend amid Egyptian young people. Among the many blog entries published online every…
What We Were Left: Re-tracing the Political Aftermath of the First World War for Britain and Ireland
Mark Quigley,University of Oregon With commemorations of the 1918 Armistice this past November, four years of centennial reckonings with the…