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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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An exterior view of a church building facing a street.

Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims

Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.

Edinburgh University Press
May 8, 2025

A group of Muslim women stand amongst the rubble of destroyed buildings

Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction

Umit Eser explores authoritarianism in post-Ottoman geographies by investigating the origins of organised violence and ethnic cleansings at the beginning of the twentieth century

Edinburgh University Press
October 15, 2024

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims

Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction

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