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Jamie Macpherson's Fiddle: Decolonisation, and Representing Gypsy/Traveller Communities in the Clan Macpherson Museum | Northern Scotland
This article examines the representation of Gypsy/Travellers in Scottish museums using a decolonial perspective. Focusing on a case study of Jamie Macpherson’s fiddle and its re-interpretation at t...
Contributors | Ben Jonson Journal
John Jowett is Emeritus Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham and general editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works. ... Sonia Sahoo is Professor of English at Jadavpur University. Her research interests include Early
‘Richt honorabill’ ladies: Noble Power and Aristocratic Women in Sixteenth-Century Scotland | The Scottish Historical Review
This essay began as a talk given in October 2023 to inaugurate an annual public lecture in honour of Jenny Wormald. It takes its inspiration from her work on noble power, re-examining how noblewome...
Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940 | Archives of Natural History
Exchange of duplicate specimens was an important element of the relationship between metropolitan and regional museums in the period 1870–1940. Evidence of transfers of botanical museum objects suc...
Reputed Ownership in Scots Law: An Historical and Doctrinal Analysis | Edinburgh Law Review
“What remedy is available to creditors seeking to exercise diligence over corporeal moveable property in the possession of their debtors, but the ownership of which lies with another? The presumpti...
The Qur’an on Muslim Women’s Marriage to Non-Muslims: Premodern Exegetical Strategies, Contradictions, and Assumptions | Journal of Qur'anic Studies
This article interrogates the claim that Islam prohibits Muslim women’s marriage to kitābīs (a derivative of the Qur’anic term ahl al-kitāb that is commonly used to refer to Christians and Jews), a...
Post-Socialist ‘Cancel Culture’? The Contested Politics of Memory in Post-Socialist Romania | Cultural History
With the global rise of the social movements such as the BLM driven by quests for racial justice and symbolic reparations, monuments and street names have become objects of ideological contention. ...
Professor Heather C Whalley | The University of Edinburgh
- Email: heather.whalley@ed.ac.uk
Dr Heather Whalley is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
‘A reading people’: mapping the personal libraries of prominent British Methodists | Library & Information History
Reading is acknowledged to have been a key means of transmission and reinforcement of the Methodist message in Britain, yet the role played by libraries in the history of the movement has been comp...
A Peculiar Kind of Particularity: Plants and Animals in Marianne Moore’s Early Poetry | Modernist Cultures
As an undergraduate studying biology at Bryn Mawr College in the messy aftermath of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, Marianne Moore found herself surrounded by renowned biologists like Thomas ...