About Paper & Glory
Paper & Glory is a space for slow thought and careful writing — for essays that notice, connect, and care. It’s about the humanities in their widest sense: history, feminism, culture, and the small acts of attention that shape how we understand the world.
It began as a simple idea: that thinking shouldn’t be confined to lecture halls or journals. The best ideas don’t always start with theory — they begin in the everyday places where people live and wonder. In kitchens and cafés, on buses, in hospital corridors and libraries — wherever someone is quietly asking why the world is as it is.
Here, scholarship meets storytelling. A medieval fragment can sit beside a modern reflection; a feminist essay beside a piece on pop culture or poetry. The goal isn’t to simplify big ideas, but to make them feel human — to show that intellect and empathy belong together.
Paper & Glory exists for those who believe the humanities still matter — not as a discipline, but as a way of paying attention. It’s for readers who can find meaning in a manuscript and a movie in the same breath, who see that the myths we once told aren’t so different from the ones on our screens now.
Our Editorial Ethos
Paper & Glory exists for writing that slows down — that listens before it argues, and connects before it concludes.
We believe that the humanities aren’t about having the last word, but about keeping the conversation going.
We value writing that:
- Balances intellect with empathy
- Speaks from somewhere, not nowhere
- Makes big ideas feel human
- Treats thought as a form of generosity
- Takes the humanities seriously without taking itself too seriously
Whether you write about the medieval world or modern womanhood, film, folklore, or family, Paper & Glory welcomes work that treats ideas as living things — not museum pieces.
We love essays that linger, questions that outlast their answers, and writing that takes its time.
Contact and Get Involved
If you’d like to contribute, collaborate, or just say hello, you can reach me at paperandglory@outlook.com
You can also keep up with everything Paper & Glory by:
- Reading new essays on the Blog
- Subscribing to In the Margins, the fortnightly newsletter about history, culture, and the art of paying attention
- Exploring The Folio, the quarterly digital magazine featuring long-form essays, fiction, and poetry
- Checking Get Featured for open calls and submission guidelines
Whether you’re here to read, write, or share your work, I’m glad you found your way here.
What You’ll Find Here
- The Blog — shorter essays, reflections, and pop-cultural criticism.
- In the Margins — a fortnightly newsletter about history, culture, and the art of paying attention.
- The Folio — a quarterly digital magazine of long-form essays, creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.
- Get Featured — open calls for guest essays and creative submissions.
Every part of Paper & Glory shares one belief: that the humanities belong to everyone — not just to those who can afford the time or titles to study them.
Why “Paper & Glory”?
Because the two things we chase — knowledge and meaning — are both fragile and luminous.
Paper for the physical act of writing, the record, the trace left behind.
Glory for the fleeting spark of understanding, that moment when something ordinary suddenly makes sense.
Together, they remind us that even the smallest act of thought — a note, a paragraph, a question — can hold a kind of grace.
About the Editor
Hi, I’m Eve, the editor and founder of Paper & Glory. I’m a humanities student with a particular interest in the early medieval World and its connections to the wider world — from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and beyond. My research sits at the crossroads of history, literature, and material culture, tracing how ideas, stories, and artefacts travelled — and how they shaped the ways people understood identity, faith, and belonging.
But my work also lives outside the archive. I write about feminism, class, and modern culture, and how the echoes of the past still move through the ordinary corners of everyday life — in language, landscape, and the stories we tell about ourselves. Sometimes that means exploring pop culture and media — the mythic weight of modern icons, the politics of “girlhood” in music and film, or why a Netflix series or fantasy saga can say as much about us as a medieval chronicle.
For me, history isn’t something static or distant; it’s something we carry with us, often without realising.
I founded Paper & Glory because I wanted to make space for the kind of thinking that doesn’t always fit neatly into academic categories — a space where the humanities could breathe. Where essays don’t need to be formal to be thoughtful, and where intellect can sit comfortably beside empathy, humour, and vulnerability.
I believe that good writing listens before it argues; that the best ideas are born in conversation, not isolation; and that the humanities should feel alive — not locked away behind paywalls or jargon.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually swimming, reading, or volunteering with local heritage projects, from community archaeology to youth engagement. Those moments — standing in a ruined abbey, or watching a child uncover their first pottery shard — remind me why I study the past in the first place: because it belongs to all of us.
Paper & Glory is my way of keeping that connection alive — a place for slow thought and quiet care, where the past meets the present, and meaning grows out of attention.
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