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43pieces published
Philosophy · EssayBeyond Form: The Continuity of Japanese Architectural Philosophy
Saloni Rege · 7 September 2026
History · EssayThe Illusion of Reform: How U.S. Presidents from Harding to Roosevelt Shaped — and Dodged — Federal Responsibility, 1921–1941
Alexandra Baily · 7 September 2026
History · EssayDiscovering Setsu Koizumi: The Muse “Behind” Lafcadio Hearn
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Nicholas Parlitsis · 7 September 2026
Literature · EssayConstructing Criminal Agency: Narratives, Identity, and Violence in Macbeth and Othello
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Lola Hobson · 7 September 2026
Literature · EssayCompare the Role of Isolation as Spaces of Moral Revelation in And Then There Were None and The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Lola Hobson · 7 September 2026
Classics · EssayA Goddess of Love and War: Reconciling Ishtar and VenusTracing Ishtar's journey to Aphrodite and Venus, and how her suppressed features reappear
Alec Grinter · 7 September 2026
Politics · EssayPanic and Public Policy: The Social Construction of Social Media AddictionAnalysing a generation's greatest concern.
Brad Turland · 7 September 2026
History · EssayOperation Harvest: The IRA's Border Campaign
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Mark Cusack · 7 September 2026
Classics · EssayReplacing the Iliad: Euripides’ use of the Epic Cycle in his Trojan plays
Emily Miles · 6 September 2026
Classics · EssayWas Herodotus Over Dramatic? An analysis of literary craft in Herodotus’ Histories
Emily Miles · 6 September 2026
Literature · EssayConformity and Rebellion: Joyce and Bennett on Education and IdentityHow A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The History Boys stage the conflict between institutional authority and the self.
Hector Hallett · 6 September 2026
Literature · EssayThe Illusion of Choice: A Reading of Larkin's 'Dockery and Son'On time, habit, and the futility of the paths not taken.
Hector Hallett · 6 September 2026
Poetry · PoetryWar & Woe!A poem about the aftermath of war.
Sid Basu · 5 September 2026
History · EssayCause or Catalyst? The Opium Wars and the Taiping RebellionThe Opium Wars deepened a crisis they did not create.
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Chanel Parker · 5 September 2026
History · EssayHow Did Stalinism Transform the Purpose of Soviet Art, 1924-1932?The fate of revolutionary art after Lenin.
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Chanel Parker · 5 September 2026
Philosophy · EssayEvaluating the Controversy of Delivering Therapy Online Using a Postmodern Approach
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Syasya Sayed Rajak · 5 September 2026
Politics · Essay Necropolitics, Infection Narratives, and The Last of Us
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Nicholas Parlitsis · 5 September 2026
History · EssaySocial Decay and Violence in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin: The Transformation of the Modern Knights-errant in Chinese Cinema
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Nicholas Parlitsis · 5 September 2026
History · EssayDid WWI fundamentally transform conceptions of masculinity? A British Perspective.
Rob D'Evelyn · 5 September 2026
History · EssayExacerbating Civil War: Foreign Superpowers and a Divided NationTo what extent were foreign powers were the most significant drivers in the Korean War?
Brad Turland · 5 September 2026
History · EssayGenocide in Rwanda: An International FailureThe extent of the Rwandan Genocide was largely due to foreign failings in preventing the scale of the violence. To what extent is this true?
Brad Turland · 5 September 2026
Classics · EssayMaking a Song and Dance of It: Performance and Early Greek PoetryThe difference it makes in our appreciation of early Greek poems to think of them as song lyrics rather than as words on a page.
Anwen Pinniger · 5 September 2026
Poetry · PoetryProemAn Excerpt
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Anthony J Kleem · 4 September 2026
Fiction · FictionÜber LordA Mark Barrett story.
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James Ross · 4 September 2026
Poetry · PoetrySidSid was just a child
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Brian Fitzpatrick · 4 September 2026
Poetry · PoetryWritten in Grecian MoodA poem imbued with rich imagination and vivid mythical elements of Ancient Greece, which is intricately woven to express emotions.
Sid Basu · 31 August 2026
Poetry · PoetryBritannia BereavedWill no muse, then, cry at Camlann as they did for fair Achilles?
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J.R. Hamilton · 31 August 2026
Politics · EssayIs There Democratic Justification for a Second Brexit Referendum?
Alexandra Baily · 30 August 2026
Lecture · 43 minHomer's Iliad Explained: Books 6–12
Hector Hallett · 30 August 2026
Poetry · PoetryIsland Or Something Sinister!A gothic poem about an island appearing to be normal. Is it really normal, or something sinister?
Sid Basu · 28 August 2026
Poetry · PoetryAndromache
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Drew Cody · 28 August 2026
Poetry · PoetryTelamonides
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Drew Cody · 28 August 2026
Poetry · PoetryIos, Greece A Homeric style poem on the theme 'Riddle' for the Oxford Tower Poetry Competition 2026.
Hector Hallett · 28 August 2026
Lecture · 10 minWhy the Women Die in Frankenstein A video essay
Hector Hallett · 27 August 2026
Lecture · 17 min'Peira' in Books 2–5 of Homer's Iliad
Hector Hallett · 29 July 2026
Lecture · 47 minMad, Bad, and Dangerous: Lord Byron (Part 1)
Hector Hallett · 16 July 2026
Politics · EssayExistential Politics: How Competing Crises Are Fragmenting UK Politics
Ralph Thomsen · 12 July 2026
Lecture · 9 minOn Being Lost: Dante's Inferno
Hector Hallett · 6 July 2026
Politics · EssayWhy Should You Vote?
Ralph Thomsen · 5 July 2026
Lecture · 22 min'Kleos' in Book 1 of Homer's Iliad
Hector Hallett · 26 June 2026
Lecture · 1h 14minJames Joyce: Why He's Worth the Effort
Hector Hallett · 19 June 2026
Literature · EssayThe Creature as Eve: Liminality in Shelley’s Frankensteinand the Fragmented Self in Early Modernist Thought
Hector Hallett · 12 June 2026
Literature · EssayParis France, Gertrude SteinTo Be Fashionable and To Be Logical
Hector Hallett · 12 June 2026