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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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5 Great Scottish Women You Might Not Have Heard Of…

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history. With fascinating lives on every page, the concise entries illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to…

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December 27, 2019
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Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

5 Great Scottish Women You Might Not Have Heard Of…

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

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

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

5 Great Scottish Women You Might Not Have Heard Of…

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

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

Q&A with Françoise Vergès on Decolonial Feminism