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Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language Models
Read more: Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language ModelsMaciej Kurzynski discusses how embracing new language models can revolutionise literary studies.

Covenants and Covenanting
By Neil McIntyre This month, The Scottish Historical Review publishes the first of a series of special issues that tackle key themes in Scottish History. ‘Covenants and Covenanting’ will showcase the latest research on the origins, impact and legacies of…

Scottish Affairs Special Issue on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Whose interests does an ACEs agenda for Scotland actually serve?
By Ariane Critchley, Emma Davidson, Laura H.V. Wright The guest editors of the November 2020 edition of Scottish Affairs share their thoughts on why Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have galvanized so much attention in Scotland. They ask the question, in…

The Innes Review Turns 70
By John Reuben Davies Read the editorial introduction from The Innes Review: 70th Anniversary Virtual Collection, which is free to access on our site and contains over 40 free articles spanning 70 years of the The Innes Review‘s history. The…

Introducing Northern Scotland: Black Lives Matter Virtual Collection
Read the introductory article to our recently released Northern Scotland: Black Lives Matter virtual collection, which can be found on our website and is freely accessible until the end of 2020. By Jim MacPherson The racist murder of George Floyd…

Was there a Catholic school architecture?
By Diane M Watters In 2018, Scotland commemorated 100 years of local authority-run Catholic schooling since the 1918 Education Act. Following the act, both the Catholic and Episcopalian churches transferred their own church-run schools, known as ‘voluntary’ schools, into public…

Dialectics of Improvement: a conversation
Gerard Lee McKeever’s new book Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 is published this month in the ‘Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism’ series. To mark the occasion, Dr McKeever spoke to series co-editor Professor Penny Fielding.

Q&A with Murdo Macdonald, author of ‘Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins’
Read on to find out what inspired Murdo Macdonald to research Patrick Geddes in his new book Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins, available now on the Edinburgh University Press website. What inspired you to research Patrick Geddes? In my doctoral work…

The role of heritage in community development of the Highlands and Islands
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author of ‘History: its Key Place in the Future of the Highlands and Islands‘ from Northern Scotland 27.1 – in his…

“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’ on 31 January 1919. This followed another paper published shortly before, summarising the results of my searches in the archives.…