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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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Threads that Bind: Women and their Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

by Cathryn Spence and Cordelia Beattie The saying goes, ‘Clothes make the man’, but in early modern Scotland, many women would have considered clothing to be a central part of their identity. According to early modern legal treatises, married women…

Edinburgh University Press
July 10, 2023

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Threads that Bind: Women and their Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

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