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Category: Scottish Studies

Cultural Studies

The role of heritage in community development of the Highlands and Islands

posted by Teri Williams March 12, 20208 min read622 Views

Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author…

Battle of George Square troops
British History

“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square

posted by Teri Williams February 24, 20209 min read604 Views

Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…

Cultural Studies

Scottish Muslims: Unity and Belonging

posted by Naomi Farmer January 21, 20204 min read370 Views

Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…

Scottish fashion influencers
Cultural History

Scottish Fashion Influencers and Contemporary Illustrations of Scottish Identity

posted by Teri Williams January 15, 20206 min read621 Views

When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately…

cover New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Cultural Studies

5 Great Scottish Women You Might Not Have Heard Of…

posted by Anna Glazier December 27, 20195 min read706 Views

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history….

cover detail from Evolution Before Darwin
British History

Henry H. Cheek

posted by Anna Glazier December 3, 20195 min read480 Views

Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the…

Enlightenment in a Smart City
British History

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750

posted by Emma at EUP January 14, 20194 min read2042 Views

By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…

Lord Seaforth
British History

Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner

posted by Emma at EUP October 29, 20185 min read1140 Views

Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…

Blackhill
Scottish History

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing

posted by Emma at EUP October 26, 20186 min read1183 Views

Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…

Scottish History

The deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919

posted by Teri Williams October 3, 20185 min read1624 Views

‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of…

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