Paper & Glory is a space for slow thought and careful writing — for essays that notice, connect, and question. It’s about the humanities in their broadest sense: the study of people, ideas, and the stories that shape meaning. Here, history meets culture, feminism meets politics, and the personal meets the public. It began with a simple idea: that thinking shouldn’t live only in seminar rooms or academic journals. The best ideas often start elsewhere — on buses, in cafés, in the quiet of libraries — wherever someone is wondering why the world looks the way it does.

Paper & Glory is for those who believe the humanities still matter — not as a closed discipline, but as a way of paying attention. It’s about connecting the intellectual and the everyday: theory and pop culture, archives and activism, reflection and debate. At its heart, Paper & Glory values thoughtfulness over speed, depth over certainty, and connection over noise. It’s a space for ideas that take their time — and for the conviction that curiosity, properly exercised, can still change how we see the world.

I’m Eve — a writer and third-year History and Ancient History student at Swansea University, originally from South Wales. My research focuses on early medieval Wales and its connections to the global world, and my writing explores the intersections of history, feminism, class, and culture — how the past continues to shape identity, power, and the stories we tell about ourselves. I write, edit, and design everything on the site (excluding guest publications), as well as its newsletters and seasonal publications. When I’m not writing, I’m usually swimming, sketching, or reading — often with one foot in the library and the other somewhere near the sea.