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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham

Cunninghame Graham's great-grandnephew reveals his favourite sketch of the celebrated Scottish writer

October 28, 2025
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Cultural Cooperation and Intellectual Freedom in “These Anxious and Baffling Times”

Cultural History / Cultural Studies / History / Language and Literature / Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

By Marek Sroka Seventy-five years ago, Winston Churchill, in what was to become one of the most famous orations…

ByTeri Williams
OnApril 8, 2021

Introducing Critiquing Gender and Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Religion

by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots It has been over 10 years that we have seen uprisings in the…

ByHelena Heald
OnApril 6, 2021

‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives

Language and Literature / Scottish Literature

By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography,…

ByKirsty Crosbie
OnApril 1, 2021

Four Irish Persephones

Classics and Ancient History / History / Language and Literature / Literary Theory / Post 19th Century Literary Studies / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…

ByTeri Williams
OnMarch 31, 2021

Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Political Thought: What Can We Learn from Events?

Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

When I first grappled with the questions that would in time turn into my Edinburgh University Press book Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt...