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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias
Read more: The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopiasSimon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

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

The Orange Order: A Global History
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.

Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town
The authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town

Studying (and Struggling) Abroad: Reflecting on British/American “Transmigrations”
Vaughn Scribner on Dr. Alexander Hamilton, transatlantic voyages past and present, and finding connection in far-flung places.

Lord Kelvin and the Apocalypse: the striking convergence of religion and cosmology
The surprising role of scripture in developing scientific theories of the universe in 19th-century Scotland.

The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them
The editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies introduces the new special issue.

Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland
Robin Jackson explores the life and extraordinary range of work of 20th century German artist Hermann Gross

Finding a Scottish Nun in Seventeenth-Century Canada
by Mairi Cowan You never know what you might find in an archive. I went looking for demons, and I found a Scottish nun. My research had brought me to Quebec City to investigate a case of witchcraft and demonic…

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square
Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.