This month words fail us as we commemorate our mentor, colleague, friend. If you wish to share your memory of Emma, let me know and we’ll keep adding them. Like many of us, I first met Professor Emma Harris as a first-year student at her lectures on the history of England, almost four decades ago. […]
text by Dorota Osińska When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two centuries later, Florence + the Machine released ‘Kraken’ (Everybody Scream, 2025), a song that (consciously or not) reanimates this mythic beast […]
text by Magdalena Pypeć Old Harmon in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend amassed an enormous fortune as a dust contractor, as one of the characters explains: “On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery-dust, rough […]
