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Misunderstanding Monboddo on ‘Race’, Slavery and the Black Egyptian Origins of All Civilization | Journal of Scottish Philosophy
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s (1714–1799) contribution to Scottish Enlightenment thinking on race is regularly held to be twofold. As a Lord of Session, he supposedly defended slavery on Aristotel...
Cuckoos and their fosterers: uncovering details of Edward Blyth's field experiments | Archives of Natural History
In a paper published in the Magazine of natural history in 1835, Edward Blyth (1810–1873) summarized information pertinent to the life history of the brood-parasitic common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)...
Books Received | Translation and Literature
Oxford University Press, 2024 (Classical Presences). Hb. £90.00. ISBN 9780198778295. Volodine, Antoine .
Engaging the Past to Fashion the Future: The Use of Early Nineteenth-Century Bespoke Tailored Men’s Coats and Gender Narratives to Shape Contemporary Womenswear | Costume
This article explores the cut, construction and silhouette of early nineteenth-century men’s coats as a methodology for the development of contemporary womenswear. This practice-based research focu...
Semester Two 23/24 | School of Economics | School of Economics
A list of all seminars being run by the School of Economics in semester two of this academic year.
Sociability in the Early Royal Institution: Thomas Richard Underwood, Humphry Davy and Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romanticism
During its first decade the Royal Institution, founded 1799, has tended to be seen by historians as a place of chemical research or of lecturing on various aspects of culture to socially elite, ari...
Indexes to Archives of natural history 36 (2009) | Archives of Natural History
D. R. Bridson 338. :L. B. Holthuis 327. Olivier, Guillaume Antoine 218.
The Prohibition on Testamentary Promises in Civil Law | Edinburgh Law Review
University of Glasgow. Affiliated to the Antoine Favre Research Centre in Law, Savoy Mont Blanc University.
‘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...
Japonisme and Femininity: A Study of Japanese Dress in British and French Art and Society, c. 1860–c. 1899 | Costume
Abstract Artworks of the second half of the nineteenth century offer substantial evidence of the differing ways in which the 'Japanese craze' of this period was disseminated in dress. A discussion ...