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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
Q&A with Leandro Losada on ‘Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World’
by Leandro Losada Tell us a bit about your book. Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940 pursues two comparative approaches. One is the history of liberal and anti-liberal political thinking. The other is the reception of Machiavelli’s works in…
Richard III, Thomas More and ‘Jane’ Shore: A royal mistress and a royal mystery
by Tim Thornton The Princes in the Tower The discovery of King Richard III’s body under a Leicester carpark in 2012 revitalised the public’s attention to one of the most controversial figures in British history, and to the mysteries surrounding…
Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue
Our Scottish Studies Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue has just launched, and features almost 30 journal articles and book chapters from across our Scottish Studies lists, with introductions written by Beth Cowen from Glasgow University and Ersev Ersoy and Kristian Kerr…
100 Years of The Scottish Historical Review
The Scottish Historical Review (SHR) is the premier journal in the field of Scottish historical studies, covering all periods of Scottish history from the early to the modern, encouraging a variety of historical approaches, with articles written by leading scholars and Scottish…
Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 3: A case study in the ethics of academic and public history)
Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1 and 2? Read them here! Part 1Part 2 The Scottish Historical Review was the natural home for this article: based upon a Scot’s actions in parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and his role…
Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 2: West India Interests)
Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1? Read it here! I was a reluctant and unintentional scholar of Henry Dundas. Whilst examining the West India Committee records in the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad in 2016, I stumbled…
Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)
Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in the debates surrounding the abolition of the slave trade in the House of Commons after 1792. Dundas was the Lord…
A Cannibal Poet In King James’ Court
By Brett Andrew Jones It wasn’t every day that accusations of cannibalism flew around the early Jacobean court. That’s (one reason) why I found the revised version of Mucedorus so interesting. It hardly compares well to what we consider the…
Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic
By Bryony Coombs In March 2020 I was working in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, conducting research on a fifteenth century manuscript, a Latin chronicle of Scottish history. This was fortuitous timing, as one week later the UK entered a…