Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
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The captivating reflection of Chris Watkin on why he chose to write on Michel Serres continues below. Hermeneutics of suspicion,…
Cultural Studies . Film and TV . Film Philosophy . Philosophy
Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze
Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are…
Cultural Studies . Gender Studies . History . Scottish History . Scottish Studies
5 Great Scottish Women You Might Not Have Heard Of…
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history….
Language and Literature . Post 19th Century Literary Studies . Scottish History . Scottish Literature . Scottish Politics . Scottish Studies
Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…
Cultural History . Language and Literature . Modernism . World History
Ford Madox Ford, music and the First World War
My research treats music as a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the First World War was a crucial event…
By Claire White In France, the turn of the millennium ushered in a bold, and controversial, act of legal reform…
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have…
By Charles Forsdick, Mairéad Hanrahan and Martin Munro New and original work by some of the leading scholars in Francophone…