Scarlett McQuillan, University of Stirling Hafed in Glasgow: Oriental Occulture in late-Victorian Scotland By Scarlett McQuillan, University of Stirling Glasgow 1869. August heat has thickened the air and brings slum stench northwards through the streets. A growing hub of opposites, the sandstone seams of lavish villas and squalid tenements threaten to […]
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Samuel Glauber-Zimra, Ben Gurion University of the Negev For several months in 1932, John Myers was the most famous spirit photographer in England. A member of the London Jewish community, although not particularly observant himself, Myers’s rapid rise and fall drew in several other prominent British Jews, both living and […]
Dr Emma Merkling, University of Stirling and The Courtauld Institute of Art ‘Don’t look into his eyes,’ I’m warned. ‘They can hypnotise you.’ I try heeding this advice when I finally find myself in front of the painting in question. Azur the Helper, June 15, 1898 hangs on the far […]
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, University of London In her memoir about her role in creating the Cottingley Fairies photographs, published posthumously in 2009, Frances Griffiths recalled her first impressions of a wintry West Yorkshire. Arriving from South Africa in the spring of 1917 to find blacked-out streets and snow still on […]