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  • 13 Aug 2026
    Mila Daskalova

    The Victorian Asylum as a Publishing House

    Why would a psychiatric institution publish a periodical in the nineteenth century? This is the question I asked myself ten years ago, when I read the following sentence on the website of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital: ‘A printing press was installed, and a magazine, the Morningside Mirror, was produced.’ I soon found out that the […]

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  • 12 Aug 2026
    Assaf Likhovski

    The Forgotten Legal Scholars of Colonial India and Mandatory Palestine

    Three decades ago, I came across an old report on the state of legal education in the colonies of the British Empire. I learned from the report that there were very few law schools in most of the empire. However, colonial India had a highly developed system of legal education. In fact, there were more […]

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  • 10 Aug 2026
    Elisa Prosperetti

    Schooling and West African Freedom

    I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in the archives in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the more one puzzle came to dominate my research: why did schools matter so […]

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  • 10 Aug 2026
    Rik Van Nieuwenhove

    NEW BOOK: Providence, Evil and Salvation: A Thomist Perspective

    This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with the existence of evil? What is ‘sin’?  What, if anything, could the claim that God ‘saves’ the world in Christ possibly mean? How do we […]

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  • 6 Aug 2026
    Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom

    Why the ECOWAS Court Matters for Women’s Rights in Africa

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court)’s transformation from an economic tribunal into one of Africa’s leading regional human rights courts is nothing short of remarkable. Since 2005, when the ECOWAS Court was given a human rights mandate, nearly 90% of the cases it handles have been human […]

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  • 5 Aug 2026
    Frederick Toates

    Motivation 2026

    The year 2026 marks 40 years since publication of the first edition of my book ‘Motivational Systems’ by C.U.P.. So, 2026 is an important year for the publication of the 2nd edition of the book. This time it has the sub-title ‘A Biopsychological Introduction’. The reason for the addition of the subtitle is that this […]

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  • 4 Aug 2026
    Morag Goodwin

    The Batwa as global legal subjects: progress, belonging and Rwandanness

    How does law – and, in particular, global law – structure the social space within which we live our lives? My new book, Twa in Rwanda: Situating Global Discourses of Indigeneity, Conservationism and Development in Daily Life, shifts focus from the top-down framing of global law to how legal power is enacted in everyday practices […]

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  • 3 Aug 2026
    Dennis Denisoff

    Victorian Flower Boxes and the Roots of Eco-Activism

    Tankers and pipelines spill their toxic contents into oceans and wetlands, the AI industry guzzles massive amounts of water, and imperialist warmongers decimate animals, species, and biosystems across our planet. And yet, through it all, my community’s Facebook group has remained focused, instead, on excoriating a thoughtless litterbug and a band of noisy ATVers who […]

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