Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.
A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.
Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology
Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.
Dorothea Olkowski reflects on the work of Gilles Deleuze through a letter she received from him at the inception of Deleuze studies.
David McCrone explores public opinion on the devolved Scottish Parliament over the past 25 years.
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
The authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town
What does Aristotle say about the relationship between dreams and reality? And what does it have to do with frogs?
Ryan J. Johnson examines the journey that brought him and his co-editors to Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice.
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…