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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham Cunninghame Graham was a Scottish landowner, a traveller, a gaucho, and a politician, who co-founded the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party.

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Cunninghame Graham's great-grandnephew reveals his favourite sketch of the celebrated Scottish writer!

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Final reminder to get your entries in! Competition closes on Friday 😊

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Q&A with Aliya A Ali, author of Family Ties and Political Power: Governing Kūfa under ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān - Edinburgh University Press Blog Aliya A Ali delves into their research on family networks and governance in early Islam.

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Aliya A Ali provides insights into their research on family networks and governance in early Islam.

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Dead Loss: Freud and the Aesthetics of Mourning | Paragraph This article rereads the aporia in Freud's theory of mourning as a problem for representation and aesthetics. Drawing a parallel with Kant's account of the disinterested nature of aesthetic judgement, I argue that the mourner's stubborn willingness to persist in the reproduction of images of the los...

'Dead Loss: Freud and the Aesthetics of Mourning' by Thomas Waller offers an original and rich rereading of Freud's theory of mourning.

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Catherine Malabou’s Historical Epistemology | Paragraph This article seeks to address what the work of Catherine Malabou can offer to the thinking and understanding of history. Characterizing Malabou’s intellectual project as a meditation on the relation between history and possible knowledge, it situates the philosopher’s work in the tradition of hi...

'Catherine Malabou’s Historical Epistemology' by Tobias Barnett offers a distinctive argument in proposing that Malabou’s neurobiological philosophy might be understood also as a contribution to historiographical method.

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Congratulations to Tobias Barnett and Thomas Waller for their joint win of the Paragraph 2023-24 Best Article Award! 🎉

Both articles are currently free to read on our website, so make sure to check them out by following the links below.

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Make sure to get your entries in by Friday, 31 Oct.

Honour in Aristotle's Ethics Honour in Aristotle's Ethics

Our upcoming Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics is a re-evaluation of Aristotelian honour, linking ancient ethics, psychology and political theory - and it's free to read in Open Access!

#OpenAccessWeek 📚

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Open Access Hub - Open access

🔓 Demystify Open Access with our OA Hub 

This #OpenAccessWeek, discover our collection of guides on all aspects of OA publishing, including:

- The different types of Open Access 
- How to publish your own research via Open Access
- How Open Access is funded

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unspool: Time Loops in Screen Media - Workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unspool: Time Loops in Screen Media - Workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

📚 Author event

Join Nick Jones and contributors of the upcoming edited collection, Unspool: Critical Time Loops in Screen Media, for an online discussion on how film time loops can be critically approached and interpreted.

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Rediscovering Greek Institutions Rediscovering Greek Institutions

Join us in celebrating #OpenAccessWeek with new titles in Classical Studies 🏛️

Coming soon we’ve got Rediscovering Greek Institutions, a timely, interdisciplinary look at ancient Greek politics that engages with political science.

Keep an eye out for its release next month: 

Women Who Dared Women Who Dared

Giveaway! 🎉

We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.

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🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct
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Libraries: Keepers of History and History Makers The importance of libraries shone through as not only providers of history and knowledge, but as being part of history themselves.

Happy #OpenAccessWeek where we celebrate how collaboration drives scholarship forward.

During visits to two Dutch universities, Daniel Miele (one of our Key Account Managers) explored the shared goals and challenges between librarians and publishers.

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Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance

Find out more about her new book, Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550:

‘Engraved on Man’s Skin’: The Auld Alliance, Much More than a Military Alliance - Institut français · Écosse ‘For this bond was not written on parchment but engraved on the living flesh of man’s skin, not in ink but with their mixed blood.’ When the French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, arrived in Scotland in 1428, he described the alliance between these two countries in highly evocative terms – as a living document […]

📚 Author Event: Bryony Coombs at the Institut français d'Écosse
📆 Thursday 23rd October, 3pm
📍@ifecosse.bsky.social, Edinburgh

@bryonycoombs.bsky.social will deliver a lecture among the celebrations for the 730th anniversary of the Auld Alliance! 

🎟️ Book your free ticket: 

Book cover on creamy/beige background. Book cover is teal, with a rectangular hand drawn portrait image of a small building, with people queuing out of the door.

Due this December: @arezouazad.bsky.social's 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan'. The first in 'The Islamicate East' series with @edinburghup.bsky.social

Enjoy a launch discount of 30% with code NEW30: bit.ly/WarehouseofBamiyan

#skystorians #medievalsky #Afghanistan

Bergson and Affect Bergson and Affect

Dear friends, I'm very happy to share the link to my upcoming book on Bergson and Affect published with @edinburghup.bsky.social !

Those interested in #Bergson, #affect, #virtuality, #embodiment, or even #philosophy in general might find it interesting.

Forthcoming March or so next year!

Proof image of the front and back covers of Volume 27 Issue 3 of Gothic Studies Journal. The back cover lists the contents.

The cover of my upcoming special issue of @gothicstudies.bsky.social - 'Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic' - is here! Eight essays on Blackwood's fiction, delving into questions of genre, war, empathy, occultism, and much more. Full issue out soon! @edinburghup.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post

The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham

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Book Event: The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham at the Gartmore 300 Celebrations <p><span class="base" data-ui-id="page-title-wrapper">As part of the celebrations to commemorate 300 years of the village of Gartmore, author Lachlan Munro will feature in a line up of talks about former Gartmore local R.B. Cunninghame Graham. Hosted by w

📚 Book event
📍 Gartmore Village Hall
📆 This Saturday (18 October)
🕐 1pm

Head along to see Lachlan Munro discuss his book, The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham, to commemorate 300 years of the village of Gartmore!

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Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism

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Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law My monograph aims to revisit the book with the central question: what did Maine believe he was doing when he wrote Ancient Law? 

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@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.

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We’re all set up in Boston for MSA 2025! Do pop by the booth to browse our huge collection of books and journals, grab a conference discount and discuss all things modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law | King's College London This Queer@King’s event celebrates Dr Senthorun Raj’s new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), and invites responses from esteemed femi...

Thrilled to share I’ll be launching my new book in London next month. I’ll be joined by fab feminist and queer legal scholars who’ll share their thoughts on it. The launch takes place 6.30pm Tuesday 11th November in King’s College London. There will be drinks and chats. Register and come along!

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YouTube video by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley Dr Adina Zemanek and Taiwanese-language cinema

Adina Zemanek introduces her research on 'Material Culture, Home Spaces and Taiwan as a Home', published in the book, Taiwanese-language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered (2024, @edinburghup.bsky.social):
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Cover of a hardback book: Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Seleucids by Stephen Harrison. The cover shows the title and an ancient mosaic of a chariot scene, and the book is on a desk.

New book from Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia! What impact did Achaemenid models of kingship have on Alexander the Great and his successors? Stephen Harrison explores different ideologies of empire in the ancient Near-East. Out now from @edinburghup.bsky.social

ReFocus: The Films of John Waters ReFocus: The Films of John Waters

I'm so excited to announce that Refocus: The Films of John Waters is out! Use the discount code NEW 30 for 30% off on EUP's website. @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult