By Diane M Watters In 2018, Scotland commemorated 100 years of local authority-run Catholic schooling since the 1918 Education Act….
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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’…
Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the…
Read on to find out about the latest research content you can access and read for free this month, from…
Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…
By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…
From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.
Our book examines how and where women made and showed their films; and what those experiences reveal about the women…
British History
Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner
Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…