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Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment
Read moreby Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very…
Kirsty Crosbie
Impress Me With Your Books: A Peek Into My Chapter in The Edinburgh History of Reading
by Nicole Gonzalez Lovely balance Andrew Neil. The open neck and rolled up sleeves tell us this is a relaxed,…
Walter Scott’s Seven Deadly Tales
by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…
St. Helen’s, the East India Company and Shakespeare
by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only…
Q&A with Mark Mclay, author of ‘The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–1981’
Tell us a bit about your book. My book is on recent American political history. It examines the Republican Party’s…
The Library of Comfort
by Jürgen Pieters The painting on my new book’s cover was made by the Viennese artist Friedrich Frotzel (1898-1971). Its…
Five Interesting Neighbours of Shakespeare in the 1590s
by Geoffrey Marsh Who were the most interesting ‘neighbours’ of that Living with Shakespeare explores? I tried to follow up…
Shakespeare in the North: Nation, Race and Haircuts
by Adam Hansen I got a post-‘lockdown #3’ haircut in my Tyneside town recently, to my relief, and everyone else’s. …
Living with Shakespeare – A Journey in Nine Acts
by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was…
‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives
By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography,…
Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Political Thought: What Can We Learn from Events?
When I first grappled with the questions that would in time turn into my Edinburgh University Press book Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt...