In the November 2014 edition of Architectural Heritage John Gifford explores the history, origin and alternative designs of the National…
Month: March 2015
The Surrounding Burghs’ Resistance to Glasgow’s Municipal Expansion, c. 1869–1912 By the mid-nineteenth century Scotland’s industrial revolution had resulted in…
In our featured article this week, “The Absence of God and Its Contextual Significance for Hume”, David Fergusson of the…
The rapid programme of school building undertaken across Glasgow by the School Boards (1873–1919) left the city with a rich…
Dr. Onsando Osiemo is currently a legal practioner and researcher in Nairobi, Kenya. His areas of research are in international…
Cultural Studies
‘Don’t pump up the emotion’: The creation and authorship of a sound world in The Wire
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around…
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! [Merry Christmas!] is a picturebook written by two Latvian refugees while displaced during the Second World War. The…
Organised crime in Scotland has been characterised (one could say sensationalised) as a blight and a cancer. Despite the best…
Language and Literature
From the Archives – Translation of Children’s Literature in the Soviet Union: How Pinocchio Got a Golden Key
As well as providing entertainment and a tool for developing children’s reading skills, children’s literature is also a powerful instrument…
The article “British Conservatives, the Red Menace and Antiforeign Agitation in China, 1924–1927” in our journal Cultural History looks at…