by Talking Humanities | Oct 26, 2017 | Features, Research & Resources
Despite a growing awareness and interest in ‘sports-for-development’ initiatives, and the continuing spread of televised football matches (the English Premier League in particular), amateur football remains under-researched. Dr William Tantam, a postdoctoral fellow in...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 10, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law
Image: Frenchman’s Cove, Porland, Jamaica © Merlin John Author, blogger and columnist Montague Kobbé, examines the enduring appeal of Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’ postcolonial novel and one of the great prequels of world literature. When Jean Rhys published...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 6, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature, Republished
Mary Going, a PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield, discusses The Blood of the Vampire, a unique novel creating a female vampire that offers something different to Dracula, Lucy Westenra and Carmilla. She believes the novel deserves a place within the...