By Katie Barclay In 1855, the Scottish Court of Session was asked to consider whether the brothers of John Greenhorn, a collier, had a cause of action against his employer, Addie, for their emotional ...

Professor Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) will speak on the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)

Family Estrangement Has Been Complicated for Centuries

The 7th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries conference, a free, online event on Friday 27th November 2026, is hosted by the Open University Law School legal histories research cluster.

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

Kissing is a serious business for Professor Katie Barclay, a native of Lanarkshire working in Australia

Call it a crisis, call it a decline, call it a recession: the long, lusty snog is in trouble, harder to experience in real life or even watch on screen. But why? And what’s it like to think you may ne...

The kiss! What could be more romantic? And yet, as historian Katie Barclay discovered when writing her book The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power, she found non-…

Katie Barclay with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'.