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Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town
Read more: Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile townThe authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town
Kinds of Insight
By Kate McLoughlin This article arose from a paper I gave at the conference on the Long Modernist Novel at…
The Pleasures of Literary Communication
By Roger D. Sell Literary activity can be studied as one among other kinds of human communication. Such an approach…
The Lang Road to Scottish History
By Catriona M.M. Macdonald Historians frequently address reputations in their work, indeed they are central to some of the most…
A Matter of Life and Death: the Fourth Act in Shakespearean Tragedy
By Lisa Hopkins Having an associative mind is often a source of shame, but it does occasionally have benefits. Two…
Nuancing Ken Russell
By Kevin M. Flanagan Director Ken Russell (1927-2011) tends to evoke extreme reactions. Critics, academics, and fans lavish a few…
The semantic dimension of Newtonian Power
By Asher Jiang The concept of physical power in its modern forms has been introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in…
Introducing The Great Seljuk Empire
The collapse of the Ottoman empire in the wake of the First World War a century ago did not merely…
Descartes in Scotland and pre-Enlightenment Scottish philosophy
By Giovanni Gellera Until recently, the question ‘What was philosophy like in Scotland before the Enlightenment?’ met a standard answer…
Contemporary Muslims and the Challenge of Modernity(ies)
So when will Islam undergo a reformation? When will Muslims catch up with modernity and join the 21st century? Why…