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Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland

Robin Jackson explores the life and extraordinary range of work of 20th century German artist Hermann Gross

November 11, 2024
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Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic

By Bryony Coombs In March 2020 I was working in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, conducting research on a fifteenth century manuscript, a Latin chronicle of Scottish history. This was fortuitous timing, as one week later the UK entered a…

Teri Williams
July 2, 2021

This medieval Arabic manuscript features a title page recycled from a Latin homiliary.

Three fun ways to create a medieval Arabic manuscript

From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.

Naomi Farmer
December 11, 2019

Doing History in the Digital World

Historians have used printed media such as books, letters, diaries, newspapers and magazines for centuries, yet now that the web has/is replacing that, the web is tomorrow’s historical resource. Relationships between historical ‘text’ sources, data and interpretation, the construction of…

Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland

Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic

Three fun ways to create a medieval Arabic manuscript

Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

5 things you might not expect of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East

An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

Chrystal Macmillan: champion for women’s equality, peace and justice