When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately…
Category: Scottish History
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history….
Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the…
Hannah Holtschneider introduces her new book focussing on the life of Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and his place in Scottish Jewish History.
By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…
Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave…
British History
Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner
Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…
Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…
‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of…
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…