By Fraser Raeburn On this day 84 years ago, Scottish soldiers went into battle. For most of them, it was…
Category: Scottish Politics
By Ewen Cameron I was delighted to publish Freshness, Freedom, and Peace?: Land Settlement in Scotland after the Great War …
By Gary Walsh The purpose of this blog post is to introduce my article about the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)…
By Cliff Hague COVID-19 brought Edinburgh’s tourism boom to a screeching halt, and wiped out the city’s main festivals in…
Politics
Incorporating ACEs in relationship-based social work practice: The ‘Family Life Stories’ Workbook
By Suzanne Mooney, Lisa Bunting and Stephen Coulter If you work in the helping professions across the UK and Ireland,…
By Sarah Nelson In Scotland and internationally, most policy on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has placed overwhelming emphasis on children….
By Morag Treanor Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are defined as stressful events in childhood argued to have devastating consequences on…
By Neil McIntyre This month, The Scottish Historical Review publishes the first of a series of special issues that tackle…
Cultural Studies
Scottish Affairs Special Issue on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Whose interests does an ACEs agenda for Scotland actually serve?
By Ariane Critchley, Emma Davidson, Laura H.V. Wright The guest editors of the November 2020 edition of Scottish Affairs share…
British History
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…