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

Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.

September 30, 2024
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Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in the debates surrounding the abolition of the slave trade in the House of Commons after 1792. Dundas was the Lord…

Edinburgh University Press
November 10, 2021

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

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

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

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Ancient History & Classical Studies

What is Philosophy? What is Politics? What is Critique?

Who are the displaced?

Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash