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The Cotton Famine and the Decline of the Scottish Cotton Industry | International Review of Scottish Studies
This article argues that the Scottish industry recovered fairly quickly from the cotton famine but declined steeply in the late nineteenth century. The article analyses the wills and inventories of...
Debating Bibliomania and the Collection of Books in the Eighteenth Century | Library & Information History
Abstract The social categorization of the book collectors in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain informs the relationship between bibliomania and the private library. Much bibliomania ...
The Fragmented Realities of Britain's Liberal-Empire: An Open Letter | Britain and the World
This paper examines open letters written by British and Indian intellectuals during the Second World War. Supporters and apologists of the British Empire often trumpeted its liberal foundations. Gr...
Katherine Sophia Baily (Lady Kane) and The Irish Flora (1833) | Archives of Natural History
When she was only 22 years old, Katherine Sophia Baily published, anonymously, a pocketable account of the native flora of Ireland. While her name was not on the title-page, it was evidently not a ...
Notes on Contributors | Gothic Studies
Dr Jeanette D’Arcy is an interdisciplinary scholar who lives and works in Norfolk. ... Dr Harvey O’Brien is Head of Film at the UCD School of English, Drama, and Film.
Jemma Field, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts, 1589–1619 | The Innes Review
informed by an exhaustive reading of the relevant secondary literature, Dr Field deserves our recognition and thanks. ... 4. Michael Bath, The Image of the Stag: Iconographic Themes in Western Art (Baden-Baden, 1992).
The College of Science & Engineering's Darwin and Maxwell lectures
Two of Edinburgh's most celebrated former students, Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell, went on to lay down fundamental ideas in their fields, a legacy which Edinburgh researchers use every day. The College of Science and Engineering celebrates
Nietzschean Themes in Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse | Film-Philosophy
Béla Tarr's last feature film The Turin Horse (2011) begins with a prologue that narrates Friedrich Nietzsche's mental breakdown in Turin in 1889, which was allegedly prompted by his witnessing a c...
Notes on Contributors | Derrida Today
Dr . Cerrato published a scholarly monograph on Michel Foucault and many articles about infrapolitics, nationalism, topology, and autography. ... Michael Portal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University.
The Northern Ireland Question | Scottish Affairs
Yet in respect of social housing, as Dr Graham Gudgin shows in his chapter, Catholics in overall terms probably fared better than Protestants. ... Dr Roche unpicks this claim by invoking the large corpus of both Christian and secular writing on the