text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Since it is February, here’s another annual report marking the anniversary of us getting together as a research group QAQV 9 The main event of the year was the From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference with more excellent talks, insightful questions and comments from friends old and new. Papers and […]
text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish In 1727, an elderly woman named Janet Horne was executed in the Scottish Highlands for the crime of witchcraft. Nearly three centuries later, her story still lingers – fragmented, uncertain, and filtered through rumor rather than record. In The Last Witch of Scotland (2023), novelist Philip Paris revisits this haunting episode […]
text by Konrad Zaręba In 1893, Oscar Wilde composed the one-act drama Salomé, which retells, as its title indicates, the biblical narrative of Salome and the execution of John the Baptist. Because the play portrays biblical figures, it was prohibited in Britain and did not receive a public performance there until 1931. At the time […]
