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Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.

September 5, 2025
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‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

Edinburgh University Press
November 14, 2024

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“So Revealing”: Yes, there was plenty of ballet in early America

By Lynn Matluck Brooks Ballet in early America? Didn’t we have to wait for the Russians to show up in the 1910s with the Ballets Russes, and for those who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and ’30s?…

Edinburgh University Press
April 8, 2024

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

“So Revealing”: Yes, there was plenty of ballet in early America

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

How is this Philosophy?

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Drawing away from the X assemblage

Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus