Demonstrates how the career of Britain’s first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic genres, including tragedy, melodrama and minstrel plays.
Investigates reading, writing and associational culture in the industrial workplace in Scotland and Northern England from the 1840s to the 1920s.
Offers a fresh approach to one of the towering intellectuals of the early modern period, Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Examines the philosophical background to theories of conflict in political theory and their sources in philosophy.
Examines the flagellation practices of Twelver Shi'i refugees in Syria for the first time.
Can the digitalisation of courts be more people centric?
Conducts the first genealogy of the philosophy of the anexact in twentieth century culture, introducing the concept as a means of understanding modernist avant-garde art and literature in the long mid-century (c. 1922–1972).
Examines how contemporary documentary films depict the individual performing the self.
Identifies how comics, manga and graphic novels reshape Shakespeare’s works in manners unavailable to other media.
A pioneering excavation of Adorno’s geography which engages fascism and antifascism in the terrain of geographical theorising.
Expands the scope of Islamic Studies to include the study of non-Muslim Islam.
Showcases how the Tudor printed edition can help us to relearn our assumptions about, and imagined relationships with, the ideal readers of early modern fiction.