The Edithorial

  ‘Face ghosts or they will have their way’ How the ancient Furies escaped from the pages of Edith Hall’s library to cast a shadow across he...

  Four years, an epidemic and a job change after a conference I co-convened with Dr Tom Mackenzie ( and blogged about ), on the Scottish lea...

  Green was everywhere. The elation was palpable. Half the people on the flight from Stansted were dressed as leprechauns and the other half...

  'You've got to be in it to win it' goes the adage cited by academics working overtime to submit lengthy applications to the ...

  I’m leading a project exploring the ubiquity of Aristotle outside the Academy. He has often been mobilised in progressive causes, but not...

  Seven weeks after the British Library was afflicted by a ransomware cyber-attack, its chief executive, Sir Roly Keating, has belatedly iss...

  Like Shakespeare, Raphael and Ingrid Bergman, my father, the Reverend Professor Stuart George Hall, died yesterday on his birthday, 7 June...