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Where were the Orcades?: Early medieval engagement with the islands at the edge of the Earth in texts and maps

Reinterpreting the history of Scotland's northern islands.

August 28, 2024
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A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

By Louise Chapman In 2012, I uncovered an array of boxes containing 177 items of dress in the School of Fashion and Textiles archives at Birmingham City University (BCU). Found in a store cupboard the assemblage included a large selection…

Teri Williams
November 12, 2020

Costume – Celebrating 50 Years of Publication

By Valerie Cumming and Alexandra Kim The year 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Costume as a journal and we are celebrating this milestone in a number of different ways. The most obvious is that Costume‘s cover design has been…

Teri Williams
March 24, 2017

Where were the Orcades?: Early medieval engagement with the islands at the edge of the Earth in texts and maps

A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

Costume – Celebrating 50 Years of Publication

Where were the Orcades?: Early medieval engagement with the islands at the edge of the Earth in texts and maps

Haraway against Deleuze, or, Must We Like Pets?

Signaling Tensions: The Politics of Telegraphic Communication in Modern Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

Q&A with the author of Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought