Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have…
Category: History
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…
Read on to find out what inspired Murdo Macdonald to research Patrick Geddes in his new book Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual…
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author…
British History
“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’…
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary…
When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately…
Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard questions in moral…
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history….