One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
Category: Scottish History
Glasgow Archaeological Society has been committed to publishing papers and disseminating information on archaeological findings and discoveries since it was…
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…
The benefit of studying Gaelic poetry in conjunction with conventional documentary sources to obtain a fuller understanding of the past…
By Marjory Harper In February 1983, just as I was finishing my PhD, I gave my first conference paper in…