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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
Lord Kelvin and the Apocalypse: the striking convergence of religion and cosmology
The surprising role of scripture in developing scientific theories of the universe in 19th-century Scotland.
The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them
The editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies introduces the new special issue.
A canonization that caused a diplomatic rift in Europe
Eduardo Ángel Cruz investigates the overlap between the political and the spiritual in canonizations of the Catholic Church
EUP 75: Our Publishing in Language & Linguistics
Explore the journey of Language & Linguistics publishing at Edinburgh University Press from the 1990s to our latest releases.
Intergenerational justice: can liberal democracies govern for the future?
Is it possible to attain democratic legitimacy regarding long-term policies when the majority of people still vote for politicians that privilege short-term preferences?
A country built with diasporas and immigrants
How have diasporas and migrants contributed to the rise of the US as a great political, economic, scientific, and cultural power?
W. B. Yeats’s late-career engagement with the Irish language poetry of dispossession
Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.
Africa Food Security and the WTO
by Onsando Osiemo The food security dilemma Africa’s food security is ever worsening. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization…
‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history
Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies