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The relationship of astrology with Roman state religion and practices – Kathryn Shaw

Kathryn Shaw studied Drama and Classical Literature and Civilization at the University of Birmingham, and is currently following a masters programme at KU Leuven university in Belgium. She has submitted her thesis on Brussels’ Toone marionette theatre, and has an interest in popular performance. An astrological clock in Prague. The Relationship of Astrology with Roman…

An exploration of camp aesthetics in Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and Alex Cox’s 2002 film adaptation, Revengers Tragedy – Georgia Tindale

Georgia Tindale is an Assistant Editor working in Amsterdam and recently graduated with an MPhil in Renaissance literature from Cambridge. Prior to Cambridge, she studied English with Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham where she founded Porridge in her final year. She is interested in a wide range of subjects including poetry, science writing, health…

Exploring the potential for historical graphic narratives to challenge hegemony and empower the afflicted: subaltern affliction in Maus and Delhi Calm – Jessica Syposz

Jessica Syposz is a final year English with Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. Her interests include graphic novels, the collapse of the USSR in fiction and the relationship between history and nostalgia. She can sometimes be found writing and performing poetry and short stories. Exploring the potential for historical graphic…

How many Machiavellis? Rhetoric and dual-motivation in The Prince – Chris Rouse

Chris Rouse is a final year History and Politics student at the University of Birmingham, and starts an MA in Medieval Studies at York in September. He enjoys writing about the premodern history of politics, religion, ideas and globalism. Michael Gove has recently been dubbed ‘Machiavellian’ by many after announcing that he is running to…

Underwater Photography – Lily Rayson

Lily Rayson is an American and Canadian Studies student at the University of Birmingham. She born and bred in Birmingham and has always had a passion for art and the arts. She enjoys writing for herself, and for The Tab UK, where she has a platform to appeal to young women. She enjoys reading books that…

A discussion of time and the tragicomic experience in the works of Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett – Amelie Marron

Amelie Marron is a second year Drama and Theatre Arts student from the University of Birmingham whose interests include travelling, reading, films, theatre and pretty much anything art and culture related. She also runs her own personal blog (http://ameliemarron.blogspot.co.uk/) Image from Waiting for Godot, Guildburys Theatre Company, at The Electric Theatre, Guildford. April 2016. Credit: Mike…

‘A vague, uncharted nebula’: disentangling the relationship between language and thought – Greg Woodin

Greg Woodin is a second year English Language student at the University of Birmingham. His interests include psycholinguistics, phonology and pretty much anything to do with words. Howler monkeys, credit: Wikipedia ‘A vague, uncharted nebula’: disentangling the relationship between language and thought I A Divisive Issue The relationship between language and thought and the extent to…

The nature of survival in Auschwitz in Charlotte Delbo’s None of Us Will Return – Jamie Mottram

Jamie Mottram is a final year History student at the University of Birmingham. His primary interest is British history, both modern and pre-modern. The nature of survival in Auschwitz in Charlotte Delbo’s None of Us Will Return Charlotte Delbo became a prisoner in Auschwitz in January 1943, where she survived for roughly a year before…

‘By day and night he wrongs me…I’ll not endure it’: The Gender Politics of Rewriting King Lear – Nora Selmani

Nora Selmani is a final year English and Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. Her interests include diasporic literature, feminist readings of everything, and poetry. Kaede and Jiro in Kurosawa’s Ran. ‘By day and night he wrongs me…I’ll not endure it’: The Gender Politics of Rewriting King Lear The tragedy of King…

A discussion of Neo-Victorianism in literary studies and as a new genre in contemporary performance – Kathryn Shaw

Kathryn Shaw studied Drama and Classical Literature and Civilization at the University of Birmingham, and is currently following a masters programme at KU Leuven university in Belgium. She is writing her thesis on Brussels’ Toone marionette theatre, and has an interest in popular performance. Emilie Autumn, credit: fanpop.com A discussion of Neo-Victorianism in…

Causality, consequences and counterfactuals: can individuals change history? – Chris Rouse

Chris Rouse is a final year History and Politics student at the University of Birmingham, and starts an MA in Medieval Studies at York in September. He enjoys writing about the premodern history of politics, religion, ideas and globalism. Causality, consequences and counterfactuals: can individuals change history? Can history be ‘changed’? Are there individuals…

Exploring the relationship between form, media and content in narratives of digital culture – Bobbie-Ann Jones

Bobbie-Ann Jones is a third year English Literature with Creative Writing student at the University of Birmingham. She has a special interest in works surrounding digital culture and science, and wishes that the gulf between the humanities and the sciences were not so wide. She is a student playwright and stand-up comic, and she wishes…

Porridge

ESSAY | Don’t Rattle Granny’s Bones – Sharon Kirsch

ONE POEM – Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki

ESSAY | Corn and Chicken and Death and The Return – Alan Weltzien

Flash Fiction | Ouroboros — Leyda Mar

ESSAY | Why Bother with the Books? – Mia Cresswell-Melstrøm

ONE POEM – Adrienne Weiss