Retrospect
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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY'S HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE

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Saving Grace: The Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Murderess

Grace Marks has become a mystified figure for her relation to the murder of Thomas Kinnear and housekeeper Nancy Montogomery. Ella Gibson analyzes how Marks’ mystification challenged power structures of both class and gender.
Glimpse of Eternity

Amenhotep discovered his tomb had a vein through it that contrasted his belief in a perfect afterlife. Ambrose Rose discusses how human flaws were rationalized within beliefs of divine perfections.
Andromeda and the Erasure of Black Beauty

Popular depictions of Andromeda persist in portraying her as a white woman. Ariana North Castell returns to the classical sources to undo this whitewashing, poignantly arguing for a centering of black beauty.
Céline Sciamma is Ovid for the Modern-Day Feminist: Mythology and Misogyny in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a visually striking and metaphorically rich artifact of contemporary French cinema. Mariela Brown thoughtfully reviews the film, tracing its common themes of love and patriarchal oppression.
“We foreigners don’t smoke opium”: Exposing Western Opium Consumption, 1840-1930

The narcotic opium is the subject of an explicitly racialised history. Kat Jivkova traces Western opium consumption in an attempt to remedy perceptions of the drug as inherently Chinese.
A History of Spanish Colonial Control in Equatorial Guinea, 1778 – 1968

The Spanish control of Equatorial Guinea is a contentious episode in the history of European colonialism. Isabelle Shaw offers a concise history of the Spanish involvement.
Blood in the Water: How Cold War Tensions between Hungary & the USSR Overflowed in the Pool

Darcy Gresham recounts the tensions between Hungary and the USSR in the infamous ‘Blood in the Water’ water polo match during the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
Tracing the Paths of Dispossession: The Legacy of Bantustans in Post-Apartheid South Africa

During apartheid, South Africa institutionalised racial segregation, implementing Bantustans which were designated black home territories. Edie Christian explores the legacies of the Bantustans in South Africa today.