Miscellanea

Abstract

Variety, goes the old adage, is the spice of life. If this holds good and by ‘life’ one understands ‘experience’, this issue of Skepsi, our seventh, will add spice to the reading experience of whoever dips into it, as its title ‘Miscellanea’ suggests. Whilst being on very different topics, two of these articles are, however, linked by the fact that both were submitted in response to an essay competition promoted by Skepsi, the idea for which was developed back in the golden days of late summer last year. The competition invited current and former post-graduate students in Humanities and the Social Sciences to submit an essay which had been awarded a mark of at least 70%, so that they could taste the publishing experience. All the essays received in responses to this announcement, effectively a call for articles, would be peer reviewed and those then selected by the Editors would be published, after revision and copy editing, in the usual way. The response was an encouraging number of essays on a wide range of subjects, from which two were selected that are, with heartiest congratulations to the authors, presented in this issue.