Category: Academic
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Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part Five: ‘Since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning…’ – The content of the Gospels
Written by Alex Smith. In the fifth part of this article series asking whether the Gospels are reliable sources, Alex Smith examines the content of the Gospels, looking at places and names within these texts.
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The Dark Earth: Hittite Influences on Sapphic poetry
Written by Etta Coleman. Although Sappho’s lyric poetry continues to receive a great deal of attention from scholars, remarkably little about her Eastern influences has been discussed. Etta Coleman explores the manner in which Hittite culture permeates Sappho’s work.
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‘Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out…of Socialism’: Hippies in the Soviet Union
Written by Boryana Ivanova. The changing cultural trends of the 1960s are largely spoken of in reference to the United States, especially when discussing the ‘Hippie’ movement. But what was life like for hippies in the Soviet Union?
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Forgotten US Insurrection
Written by Sam Marks. Discussing the much neglected Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labour uprising in American history, Sam Marks argues that, despite being assigned to be forgotten in wider public consciousness, it remains an integral part of local memory.
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Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part Four: “But These Are Written That You May Believe…” – The Gospels as Greco-Roman Biographies
Written by Alex Smith. In part four of this series, Alex Smith explores the nature of the Gospels, asking whether they should be considered as ancient biographies, and weighing up scholarship on the subject.
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Michelangelo and the Temporality of Art
Written by Ruth Cullen. In this piece, Ruth Cullen reflects on art as a record of history, through the lens of Michelangelo. It is a treacherous terrain, a paradox that a considerable portion of our understanding of something comes from that understanding being non-definitive.
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Anti-Communism and the Cinema of South Korea, 1953-79
Written by Jack Bennett. How did South Korean cinema relate to the official ideology of anticommunism between 1953 and 1979? Jack Bennett discusses this issue through its close and nuanced relationship with everyday life, as a site of adherence and resistance to these forces.
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Friend or Foe? The Rome-Berlin Axis from the perspective of necessity and ideology.
Written By Hela Gorecka. The development of the Rome-Berlin Axis saw many trial and tribulations, but what were the main motivations for its cooperation and to what extent was it an inevitable occurrence?
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