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A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid Empire
Read more: A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid EmpireA tribute to a lifelong scholar, this blog explores the travels and research behind Coinages in the Achaemenid Empire.
John M. MacKenzie on ‘Bogeys’ Past and Present
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
A Quiz on Shakespeare and Science – Part 2
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard The second part of our quiz poses another 14 questions on Shakespeare and science. Missed the…
Proletarian Modernism
By Nick Hubble Modernism raises questions. On one level, it expresses the personal questions about subjectivity that writers such as…
A Quiz on Shakespeare and Science
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard In this two part quiz, the editors of new book Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition…
Sentimentalism and the Musical at Eurovision 2017
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…
American television and off-screen registers: a corpus-based comparison
In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen…
OLR 40th Anniversary – Ann Smock
Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…
Shining the spotlight on British cinema’s female stars
Britain has long had a contradictory relationship to movie stardom, as two articles from the fan magazine Picturegoer, both by…
Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…