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Jacobites, Logwood and Enslavement

Rethinking Scots' activities in the Early Modern Caribbean

January 13, 2026
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Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue

Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.

Carla Hepburn
January 31, 2020

Christmas hauntings

Catherine Belsey discusses our love for ghost stories. Follow her on a spine-tingling journey of our facination with Christmas hauntings.

Carla Hepburn
December 4, 2019

Jacobites, Logwood and Enslavement

Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue

Christmas hauntings

Jacobites, Logwood and Enslavement

What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange?

Who were Roman freedwomen? Reconstructing their lives through inscriptions

Q&A with JoEllen DeLucia: ‘Frances Wright’s A Few Days in Athens’

Q&A with Benjamin Dalton: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film