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Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.

September 30, 2024
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A black-and-white photograph cityscape of New York, centering on the Empire State Building, with dramatic cloulds above.

Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis

I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways

Edinburgh University Press
August 23, 2023

The Melville monument overlooking the Edinburgh skyline

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in the debates surrounding the abolition of the slave trade in the House of Commons after 1792. Dundas was the Lord…

Edinburgh University Press
November 10, 2021

Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ and Charisma in the British Empire

Although he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling’s ‘publicly pronounced racist and imperialist attitudes have’, as Harish Trivedi observes, ‘damned him as an artist for many readers’. However, in his 1901 novel, Kim, Kipling offers a…

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August 13, 2015
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Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ and Charisma in the British Empire

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

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