Stuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.
Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.
Millions of displaced people don’t count as refugees. Who are they, and how can they be better protected by political and legal systems?
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia.
Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source of what was distinctive in their way of thinking. Plato and Aristotle thought that it was the stirrings of wonder…
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world – from Iraq, Syria, Mali and Tunisia, to Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Bangladesh – have faced virulent attacks targeting…
By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming series to mainstays of broadcast networks, great storytelling is happening on the small screen. Episodic television tells big stories in…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something both ironic and apposite, given that her main theme was the return to the ‘British dream’. I don’t want to…