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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’.
Sudden Changes in Global Order — From Ancient to Early Modern Iran and Beyond
Dr M.A.H. Parsa explores Iran’s journey from Sasanian stability to Nader Shah’s empire.
Structural Bias, Education Reform, and Victorian Women’s Poetry
How did nineteenth-century British school textbooks help to institutionalise gender bias and erase women poets from literary history?
Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus
Henry Somers-Hall talks to Brent Adkins (author of the bestselling critical introduction and guide to A Thousand Plateaus) about his new book, Reading A Thousand Plateaus, which takes us even deeper into Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork.
From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience
From quantum theory to literary immersion, this blog examines how fission-fusion connects language, consciousness, and human experience.
Repetition After Originality: Why Saying It Again Still Matters
This blog rethinks repetition in literature, showing how repeated forms can generate innovation, disrupt meaning, and reshape poetic practice.
Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now
From Milton to modern politics, this blog explores how language in the seventeenth century influenced struggles over authority, belief, and freedom.
Lessons from Scottish Schools
Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.
Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’
This interview explores how John Bull became a literary and political figure in Victorian newspaper poetry during the American Civil War and the Cotton Famine.
Diversity and the Physical Reality of the Late Roman World
A new series rethinks the late Roman world, exploring its diversity, transformations, and wide-reaching historical significance.