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EUP 75: Our Publishing in Scottish Studies
Read more: EUP 75: Our Publishing in Scottish StudiesDiscover the story of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future
Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph: Part Two
By Julian Petley and Andrew Roberts Catch up with Part One of Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph For Heffer, ‘the lesson of Talking Pictures is clear. It portrays the England millions of us wish we still lived in’.…
Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph: Part One
By Julian Petley and Andrew Roberts Author’s Note: Given the current state of culture war, the Journal of British Cinema and Television is extremely keen to encourage further discussion of the sort of topics covered in this blog post, which…
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…
Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin
By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative project partially funded by the British Council and Arts Council England, to don my dress detective hat and study the…
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…
“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.…
Henry H. Cheek
Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the University of Edinburgh In many popular accounts of the theory of evolution the reader could be forgiven for coming away…
Free EUP content this month: September 2019
Read on to find out about the latest research content you can access and read for free this month, from journal articles, to free sample chapters and open access books spanning across a range of our core subject areas. Film,…
Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey
Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but not always critical acclaim. Historians in particular have criticized what they see as the series’ conservative politics and nostalgic view…