Retrospect
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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY'S HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE

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An Introduction to the Role of Roman Mime Actresses Within Ancient Roman Society

Bethany Hicks-Gravener considers Roman mime as a unique theatrical genre of female performance in Ancient Rome.
Did Sulla’s dictatorship amount to a restoration of the Republic, or its demise?

Ben Clarke’s article examines whether Sulla’s dictatorship truly restored the Roman Republic or instead accelerated its downfall.
Zheltoksan: The Forgotten Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union

Kirsty Rough explore the Zheltoksan protests and how thier role led to the fall of the Soviet Union
“Not the English of Shakespeare: that of Bush.” Natural Resources in Neoliberal Bolivia, 1985-2005

Alexander Stroem discusses how natural resource politics, historically central to Bolivian identity, underwent transformation under neoliberalism.
An Instrument of War – The story of the Great Highland Bagpipe in ‘The Year of The Prince’

Sam Mackenzie details the history of the Great Highland Bagpipe as ‘an instrument of war’.
City of God: Cinema as Social Commentary

Lydia Collier-Wood’s review of Mierelle and Lund’s City of God engages with social inequality, violence, and cinematic realism.
The Human Chain of Demurral: The Aesthetics of Refusal

Ami John’s tripartite exhibition examines the impactful protest art of Paula Rego, Leon Golub, and Liberate Tate, highlighting their confrontations against social issues of abortion, perpetual conflict, and climate change, advocating for autonomy and justice.
The Jewels that Killed the Queen: The French Royal Necklace Affair

Kate Taylor explores the theft of a missing necklace which caused a scandal in eighteenth-century France, fuelling public distaste towards Marie Antoinette.