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Pick-up ball: researching amateur football in Jamaica

Pick-up ball: researching amateur football in Jamaica

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...
Reality and imagination in Wide Sargasso Sea

Reality and imagination in Wide Sargasso Sea

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...
1897: the year of the psychic vampire

1897: the year of the psychic vampire

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...

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