Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.
Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.
Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross
Michail Theodosiadis explores what the European Union can learn from the transcendent values of the Byzantine Empire.
Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.
For this International Women’s Day, editor Ben Fletcher-Watson celebrates five trailblazing women who dared to make history
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.
Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology
Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.
David McCrone explores public opinion on the devolved Scottish Parliament over the past 25 years.