Anyone who is knowledgeable about Britain and its role in Palestine after World War I knows that Britain was given the territory by Turkey under a peace treaty and that the League of Nations legalized Britain’s tenure, conferring a mandate on Britain to implement a national home for the Jewish people because of a Jewish […]

Dr Maryam Farahani – July 2022 Health and beauty classifications are controversial topics in humanities and sciences, but they are also inevitable concepts upon which people ponder in the path of self-discovery. In their edited volume, Narrative Art and the Politics of Health (Anthem, 2021), Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette aptly argued, “as scientific advances […]

Why I wrote this book by Ben Braber, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow; author of the forthcoming book Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends He raced up the stairs. Blond curls messy as always. The grooves in his otherwise young […]

Q1. Who was Tasos Leivaditis? Tasos Leivaditis was a modern Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who continues to be widely read and loved in Greece, especially amongst the youth. He was born in Athens in 1922, and in fact lived nearly all his life in the capital city. His childhood was cheerful […]

1 . What is the reason behind the interest in Sauter’s creative life? I became interested in the creative life of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895-1977) while I was completing research for my 2009 book about his famous uncle, the novelist John Galsworthy (1867-1933). Sauter was like a son to Galsworthy and his wife, Ada, who […]

by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds; author of the forthcoming book Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self. As we emerge now (hopefully!) from two years of the pandemic and regular lock-down, isolation and confinement, the world suddenly can be apprehended, in some sense, afresh. Not that we can […]

Q&A for Anthem Author Blog Post — Julia Dabbs, May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate How did you become interested in this subject?  I teach a course on “Women & Art” and in a textbook came across a brief discussion of May’s outspoken comments on women’s art studio experiences, which intrigued me. Since I’ve often […]

Check out our collection of eight of the most interesting university press blog posts for this month. We aim to keep you informed, engaged and part of the ongoing scholarly conversations. Gilgamesh Dream Tablet—Iraq puts looted artifacts on display  A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a portion of the Epic of […]

Drawn to Blake In Ross Glass’s 2020 psychological horror film, Saint Maud, the title character, a hospice nurse who has recently converted to an extremely ascetic form of Catholicism after a hedonistic earlier phase, is given a book of William Blake’s prints (Morton Paley’s 1978 Phaidon edition) by the woman in her care, Amanda. Viewers […]