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The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Read more: The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration FundVéronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Trade Tariffs, Compass Petroglyphs and Early Modern Maritime Trade in Shetland
Douglas Cawthorne on the mystery of the maritime petroglyph and its possible use in North Sea trade networks
The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Véronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Five Reasons to Discover George Anne Bellamy
Caroline Breashears introduces the theatre star and political insider who may have influenced one of the greatest 18th century philosophers
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
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.
‘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
Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia
Michail Theodosiadis explores what the European Union can learn from the transcendent values of the Byzantine Empire.
Echoes of Infamy: Four Notorious Crimes of Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.
5 Women from History Who Dared to be Dangerous
For this International Women’s Day, editor Ben Fletcher-Watson celebrates five trailblazing women who dared to make history