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The Scottish Office and the ‘Glasgow Problem’
Read more: The Scottish Office and the ‘Glasgow Problem’In Spring 1997, civil servants in Edinburgh, in the pre-devolution Scottish Office (SO), faced ‘the Glasgow Problem’.
Realism and Scepticism
By Gordon Graham For the Scottish philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries, Hume was the great ‘sceptic’ awaiting an…
Collaborations in Space: Memories of British Space Science, 1960–1980
By Peter Sanford Peter Sanford, now retired, is known for his contributions to the development of rocket and satellite instruments,…
Francophone Communities Past and Present
By Charles Forsdick, Mairéad Hanrahan and Martin Munro New and original work by some of the leading scholars in Francophone…
Common Sense and Moral Philosophy
By Gordon Graham Scottish philosophy has regularly been identified with the ‘School of Common Sense’ because of the high regard…
War Damage: Four Poets of the First World War
“what are the implications of [war damage] for our understanding of literary works which themselves engage with the theme of…
The Football Pitch, England and the First World War
At the start of September 1914, less than a month after the outbreak of the First World War, the Football…
The Political and/or Politics
By Jean-Luc Nancy “As an opening, a quick overview: if our politics [la politique] is no longer simply and strictly…
Sports and the Commodification of Scottish Identity
Glasgow 2014 opened with a celebration of Scottish folklore and identity, themes intrinsically associated with Highland Games. Read: Manly Games,…
Scotland’s Referendum
By Michael Rosie, Special Editor for Scottish Affairs, Volume 23.3 (2014) Scotland does not stand still. The last 15 years…