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Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment
Read moreby Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very…
Pioneers in Roman Archaeology
“Pioneers in Roman Archaeology: The Antonine Wall Committee” by Lawrence Keppie at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, appears in the…
St. William of Stratford?
By Sean McEvoy William Shakespeare died four hundred years ago. We know he departed this life on 23 April 1616…
Shakespeare’s Questions
By Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne What is it about Shakespeare’s writing that makes it endure? Why do his plays and poems…
Human Rights Language in the 1890s
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have…
Nineteen things you never knew about nineteenth century American letters
Thomas Jefferson maintained a flock of geese to supply him with quills for his pens. The fastest speed for a…
Alfred North Whitehead and the Edinburgh Connection
By Leemon B. McHenry. 15 February is the birthday of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, born in 1841…
Mass Tourism and New Representations of Gender in Late Francoist Spain
By Mary Nash By the 1960s the right to paid holidays and the development of cheap package tours facilitated mass…
Highland sheep farming, 1850-1900
In this post, James Hunter reflects on an article he wrote for the very first volume of Northern Scotland published…
The Lang Road to Scottish History
By Catriona M.M. Macdonald Historians frequently address reputations in their work, indeed they are central to some of the most…