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

The Epidemiological Transition and Health Inequality in India

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

Animal Like Them

Religious Symbolism, Islamic Head Coverings and Laïcité in France

A Moment of Insecurity

In the Skin of a Lion (1987) by Michael Ondaatje (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

Celebrating Holi, The Festival of Colours — Lingering Echoes from Childhood

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

A Poorly Received Masterpiece: Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’

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

Chaste Ideals: Rendering Female Pubic Hair in European Art

As Mad as Van Gogh: The Artist & I

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

Thomas Nagel’s ‘The Absurd’ (1971)

Neanderthals - the Unexpected Artists

Unexpected Companionship in Varanasi

Growing up with ‘Harry Potter’ (1997–2007) — JK Rowling’s Rendering of a Bildungsroman

Manet’s Olympia and the Image of the Woman in Second Empire France

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

The Spares of England’s Monarchy: Men not Born to be King

Anthony Burgess’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ — An Unresolved Characterisation

In Search of the Oracle in Changing Times

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

The History of the Creole Language in Martinique

Last Stand of French Indochina: The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ

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

Surrealism vs the Computer: Harnessing the Power of Dreams

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

The Extravagant Art Form that is Japan's Kabuki Theatre

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

Alfred Hitchcock and the Use of Subjective Camera in ‘Vertigo’

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

Ferenc Erkel and the Birth of Hungarian Opera

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

Marcel Carné and the Second World War

National Winnie The Pooh Day 2024

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

The Natural Appeal of Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings

The Artist and the Actress: Alphonse Mucha’s Art Nouveau Posters

Listening Beyond Human Frequencies: Indigenous Epistemologies and Artificial Intelligence

Virginia Woolf and the Novel as the Unconscious and Intrinsic Experience of Life

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

Kulu Natuma - The Harvest Dance of Sri Lanka

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

Percy Shelley — A Radical Life

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

John Woo and the Origins of Heroic Bloodshed

Cassettes from Green Street: A Love Affair with Hindi Music

Grant Allen’s Ambivalent Response to the New Woman

Agnès Sorel — Fashion and Influence in the French Court

The Iconic Poster of Dorie Miller

The Symbiosis of Social Media and the Arts in Contemporary Music

The Influences of Cosmological Poems on Dostoevsky’s Masterpieces

Marginalised Communities and the Origins of Berlin’s Nightclubs

William Jones and the Origins of Indo-European Studies

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

Elizabeth I and the Propaganda of Portrait Miniatures

Oscar Niemeyer: Sensuality in Architecture

Martin Hägglund’s ‘Radical Atheism’ (2008) — Confronting the Problem of Eternal Life

Cat Cafés and the Phenomenon of Iyashi in Contemporary Japan

Filial Piety in Modern 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

Writing a Modern Ireland: James Joyce’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ (1916)

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

Gin Lane - Georgian Society According to Hogarth

Modern City Living in a Brutalist Setting: London’s Barbican Estate

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

God, King and Cromwell: Regicide and Providence in Early Modern England

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

Sport Commentary on Radio in Britain: How England v Wales (1927) Paved the Way for Public Access to Sport

The Diptych of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora: Portraying the Sanctity of Marriage

Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847) — A Portrayal of the Inequalities of Marriage for Victorian Women

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)

Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind (Review)

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

Danganronpa: An Insight into the Political Use of Rhetoric in Modern Society

A Morning Climb by Crozon Beach

The Jamaican Bandana: Reclaiming Remnants of a Troubled History

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

Harold Pinter’s ‘The Birthday Party’ — A Failed Attempt at Individuality

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 Last Sikh Maharajah and Victorian Representations of the Exotic

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

The Legacy of Hilla von Rebay’s Mission to New York

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

Céline Sciamma and the Male Gaze in Cinema

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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