My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
Category: Scottish History
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…
An extract from Open Access article, Cathcart Castle, Glasgow – Excavations 1980–81, by Brian Kerr et. al. Published in the…
By Leemon B. McHenry. 15 February is the birthday of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, born in 1841…
In this post, James Hunter reflects on an article he wrote for the very first volume of Northern Scotland published…