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Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author
Read moreby Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of…
Covenants and Covenanting
By Neil McIntyre This month, The Scottish Historical Review publishes the first of a series of special issues that tackle…
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…
“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’…
A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing
Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…
The deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919
‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of…
Investigating Scotland’s land issues, past, present and future
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
John M. MacKenzie on ‘Bogeys’ Past and Present
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…