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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

October 15, 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…

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

Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic

Three fun ways to create a medieval Arabic manuscript

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

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Politics and International Relations

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Ancient History & Classical Studies

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