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  • ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

    Nilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration

    August 21, 2025
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Man’s best friend? Sniffing out dogs in the records of early modern Scotland

From royal gifts to diabolic manifestations, Nicole Maceira Cumming explores the varied ways dogs appear in the historical record

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Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims

Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.

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The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

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Laura Ruiz de Elvira explores the role of charities in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria and, by extension, the eventual downfall of the regime.

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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

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New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore

Stuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.

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Echoes of Infamy: Four Notorious Crimes of Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

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Food insecurity in Scotland

David Watts discusses the challenges of reducing food insecurity in Scotland, and the Scottish Government's 'Cash-First' initiative.

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