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Queen Elizabeth I’s Armada Speech of 1588: An Insight into the Accuracy of the Historical Record

Tell Me What’s Out There (2024)

Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ (1932) — Inexorable Science and the Contradiction of Being Human

John Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (1820) — Ekphrasis as a Vessel of Impossibility

Kara Walker’s ‘A Subtlety’ (2014) — The Plantation Legacy in Contemporary America

Flann O’Brien’s ‘The Third Policeman’ (1939–40) — Colonial Legacy and Stasis in Post-Independence Ireland

The Ground beneath the Stars above

Burma versus Myanmar — A Brief History of a Country’s Name

Religious Symbolism, Islamic Head Coverings and Laïcité in France

A Moment of Insecurity

This is England (2006), Shane Meadows (Review)

Walter Harris and the Amazigh: A Nineteenth Century Insight into Morocco

The Art of Mental Trauma: Max Beckmann’s Wartime Prints

The Old Flame Tree of Cairo

Deepa Srivastava PhD
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Tamil Nadu’s Auroville, Mirra Alfassa, and the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

The Limits of International Justice: The 1948 Genocide Convention and the Persistent Failure to Prevent Mass Atrocities

Modern Perceptions of Epileptics as the ‘Other’ and its Victorian Roots

Claude McKay’s ‘If We Must Die’: The spark that Ignited the Harlem Renaissance

Emil Nolde and Antisemitism: Separating Art from its Historical Context

The Abramtsevo Estate and the Origins of the Russian Arts and Crafts Movement

Trading My Fire for Smoke

A Faraway Autumn

Agnes Martin, ‘The Islands’ (1961), and the Depiction of Perfection

Frida Kahlo’s ‘The Broken Column’ — Framed in Surrealism, Rooted in Reality

The Bitter Dawn: British Writers and Artists, Idealism, and the Spanish Civil War

Social Control in 17th Century France: Life at Louis XIV’s Versailles

Masuji Ibuse’s ‘Black Rain’ (1965) and Atomic Bomb Trauma in Postwar Japan

The Duality of Talos in Apollonius of Rhodes’s ‘Argonautica’

Vestiges of a Love Remembered

The Museum Building as Object — Daniel Libeskind and the Imperial War Museum North

The Portrait of Guidobaldo della Rovere by Agnolo Bronzino (1532)

London Film and Comic Con 2021 — One of the Best Days of My Life

The Renaissance Bottega and Intergenerational Skill Transfer through the Hand of the Master

Galen Strawson’s Basic Argument — Does Free Will Exist?

Ospedali Grandi: the Charitable Hospices of Venice

An Introvert’s Guide to India

Gothic Realism in Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ (1938)

Antonio Canova and the Myth of Cupid and Psyche

George Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1937) — An Evocative Portrayal of Northern Working-Class Life

A Portrait of the Artist in the Company of His Creations (2023)

Hagia Sophia and the Significance of Circularity in Sacred Architecture

King Sejong and the Origins of the Hangul Writing System

The German Roots of Brazilian Dance Forms: The ‘Schottische’ and the ‘Xote’

The Essence of Puppetry

Emotionally Absent Parents in Jane Austen’s Novels

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ (1818)

Cassandra and the Oracle at Delphi — Unearthing the Ancient Distrust of the Female Voice

Lieu de Mémoire: Miyazaki’s ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky’ (1986) and the Welsh Miners’ Strike

Subak - The Ancient Practice Underlying the Water Temples of Bali

The Story of Anak Cu Chiang: Caught in the Crossfire of the Vietnam War

The Practice of Mulatśago among Hungarian Vlach Gypsy Men and its Impact on Gender Equality

More than just a Game — The Socio-Political Roots of ‘The Old Firm’ Rivalry Between Rangers and Celtic

Bullfighting and Independence in Catalonia

Giotto’s Fly and the Birth of the Renaissance

Prohibition in 1920s America — The Catalyst for a Now Romanticised Era

K-pop and the Cultural Representation of South Korea

The First World War, British Women and the Pub — A Turning Point

Sport and Conflict — Colombia’s Troubled Past and their 2014 Football World Cup Run

Reichardt’s ‘Certain Women’ (2016): On Slow Cinema and the Liminal Spaces of Everyday Female Experience

Woodrow Wilson’s European Legacy versus the Erosion of Goodwill Domestically

La Bonne Femme and la Mauvaise Femme: Women in Racine’s ‘Phèdre’ (1677)

Almodóvar and Women

Anti-Bourgeois Sentiment and Dada in First World War Berlin

The Dominant Mother Motif in Alfred Hitchcock’s Films

The Noble Savage in Karl May’s ‘Winnetou Series’ (1893–1910) and James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘Leatherstocking Tales’ (1823–1841)

Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’ (1992) and the Second Scottish Literary Renaissance

Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ (1867), Pope Pius IX, and Italian Unification

Gérard Rancinan’s ‘La liberté dévoilée’ (2008) and the French Constitution

The Art of Tracey Emin: Confession, Intimacy, and the Reclamation of Female Experience

Life Beyond Care

Xiaogang Feng’s Youth (2017) (Review)

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Nature, Humanity, and God

The Underground Railroad in 19th-Century America and the Role of Culturally Unique Conceptual Metaphors

Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ (1656): An Insight into the Societal Status of the Early Modern Court Artist

Cornelia Parker’s Cold Dark Matter: an Exploded View

George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Business of Bookselling in 19th Century England

Listening Beyond Human Frequencies: Indigenous Epistemologies and Artificial Intelligence

Angela Carter's City of Beautiful Objects

Chinua Achebe’s ‘Arrow of God’ (1964): An Insight into the Dynamics of Societal Collapse

The Ephemeral Body: Ritual, Identity and the Elemental in Ana Mendieta’s ‘Siluetas’ (1973–1980)

Communism and Caste in Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’

The Mythologisation of the ‘Blitz Spirit’ and its Cultural Legacy

Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ (1916) through the Lens of Jamesian Pragmatism

Osariya — The Kandyan Sari

Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’ (2018) — Hell Joseon and Social Inequality in Contemporary South Korea

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Enlightened Romanticism of Francisco Goya

The Homeric Question

The Theme of Love and Hate in John Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’

Mary Seacole and her Wonderful Adventures — A Voice from the Margins of Victorian Society

Set Free by Language: Revisiting Humboldt’s Distinction between Linguistic Structure and Conceptualisation

Simone de Beauvoir’s Existential Feminism

The Evolution of Italy’s ‘Bella Ciao’ — The Intrinsic Appeal of Folk Song as Anthems of Resistance

Marie Taglioni, La Sylphide, and Ballet’s Romantic Awakening

Haunted by Memory: Neo-Gothic Anxieties in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ (2005)

The ‘Sad Girl’ and ‘Brat Girl Summer’ Phenomena: Femininity, Rebellion, and Identity Formation in Contemporary Digital Culture

Stanley Kubrick’s Unrealised Film Project ‘Napoleon’ — The Cost of Perfectionism amidst the Shifting Sands of Hollywood

Cassettes from Green Street: A Love Affair with Hindi Music

Alexander Pope: Grievous Disability and Inspired Writing

John Locke and Rousseau: Changing Attitudes to Childhood and Depictions in Art

The Iconic Poster of Dorie Miller

Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: Juxtaposing Feminine Style with Feminist Reality

A Feminist Criticism of Fairy Tales: Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (Review)

The Myth of Medusa in Art and Popular Culture

Unearthing Traces of the Lost Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Pagans through Place-Name Study

The Catholic Counter-Reformation and Italian Baroque Art

From the Fauves to the Salons of Social Media: The Cultural Politics of Colour

The Shakespearean Fool and its Modern Counterpart — An Insight into Societal Rules

Victor Margueritte's La Garçonne: Redefining Feminine Identity in the 1920s

Oscar Niemeyer: Sensuality in Architecture

Roland Barthes’s ‘Mythologies’ (1957) — The Making of Modern Myths

Cat Cafés and the Phenomenon of Iyashi in Contemporary Japan

The Role of the Teahouse in Chinese Society

Navigating the Political City: Psychogeography, Regeneration, and Urban Memory — A Case Study of Manchester

Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats: The Use of Radio During the Great Depression

The Problematic Relationship between Suffragism, Colonialism and Universal Equality

Stream of Consciousness and Paranoia in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (1922)

‘Lady Susan’ (1794): An Early Insight into Jane Austen’s Views on Marriage and Morality

Gin Lane - Georgian Society According to Hogarth

The Isle of Dogs Storm Water Pumping Station: A Temple to Postmodernism

Getúlio Vargas and the Role of Samba in the Formation of Brazilian National Identity

A House Called Repose

Anicius Boethius on the Conflict Between Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

Channel 4’s ‘Benefits Street’ (2014) — Documentary and Subjectivity

The Elizabethan Holy Communion: Interpretation, Dissension and the Law

Nazi Anti-Smoking Campaigns: Good Science in a Tyranny

Alone on a Mountain Top: Nietzsche’s Challenging View of Humanity

Eleanor Garibaldi
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Tayeb Salih’s ‘Seasons of Migration to the North’ (1966) — The Fragmentation of Identity when Two Cultures Collide

The Factory Act of 1850 and the Origins of Saturday Afternoon Football in Britain

An Early Modern Business Card: Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Self-Portrait with Fur Collar’ (1500)

Independent Women and the Business of Marriage in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813)

Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky: The Collapse of Tonality and the Birth of the Abstract

‘The Saint-Gaudens on Boston Common’ — Charles Ives’s use of Musical Quotation

Self-renewal and Victorian Reality in William Holman Hunt’s ‘The Awakening Conscience’ (1853)

The Qajar Dynasty (1785-1925)

Existential Choice and Invisible Lives in Clarice Lispector’s ‘The Hour of the Star’ (1977)

‘Do Bigha Zamin’ (1953) — A View of Post-Independence India through the Lens of Italian Neorealism

Playbour — Explaining the Success of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Morning Climb by Crozon Beach

Segregation in Harlem and the Roots of the Rastafari Movement

The Avant-Garde Novels of Muriel Spark — Finding Truth Beyond Realism

Waiting for Godot and the Harsh Realities of the Postmodern State

Rice Farming and the Collectivist Impulse in Southern China

Sound in Frances O’Connor’s ‘Emily’ (2022) — The Art of Characterisation through Sound Design

The Cultural History of Phulkari and its Role in Punjabi Marital Rites

The Paradox of Simón Bolívar: Realpolitik and the Ideal of Freedom in the Jamaica Letter (1815)

Hilma af Klint’s Abstract Art that Predates the Earliest Known Works in the Genre

Gambling During the Time of Charles I and its Representation on the Caroline Stage

Helen of Troy: Her Portrayal in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid

The Practice of Communal Meals in Islamic Societies

Benvenuto Cellini’s ‘Perseus with the Head of Medusa’ (1554) — Renaissance and Mannerism

The Artist and the Journalist: Otto Dix’s Portrayal of Weimar Berlin’s New Woman

Emily Dickinson’s ‘Apparently with no surprise’: A Poetic Rejection of Predestination and Mortality

Practical Solutions for Mental Wellbeing, Leisure and Travel, through Arts and Culture

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