VIDES
Free online journal
Interdisciplinary essays produced by our MSt in Literature and Arts students
An annual online journal, produced by students on the Master's in Literature and Arts, VIDES is a free volume of interdisciplinary essays which explore a wide range of topics through the analysis and comparison of two related textual or visual documents.
Students produce VIDES as part of their work on the course, in their second year as part of the preparation for the dissertation. Collaboratively, students are divided into small committees who are then responsible for peer-reviewing, proof-reading, copy-editing and designing the journal.
VIDES means 'you see' in Latin, but in this context also stands as an acronym: 'Volume of Interdisciplinary Essays'.
Vides 2025
In this issue (Volume 13), the articles are organised into five broad themes: Mind and Metaphysics; A Woman’s Place; Nation and Society; Across the Globe, and Spaces and Structures. Each piece contributes to a broader dialogue, demonstrating the richness of cultural, historical, and artistic inquiry across time and space.
The articles span the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, covering Britain at home and in a global context, from Scotland to India, from the domestic interior of a country house to the London stage. The essays address a range of topics, from enjoying a landscape garden to more difficult topics of war and colonialism and the many sides of humanitarianism. Big questions are grappled with, from the gendered colonial experience to the listening of voices, often silent in the archive.
Previous volumes
Earlier volumes of VIDES are also available here:
