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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
Whose Central Bank is it Anyway?
Division of UK assets and liabilities between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK (“rUK”) following a YES…
Will the Scottish Referendum process be fair?
Four months ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh) in an Analysis piece in the Edinburgh…
Literary Celebrity
Celebrity, publicity and authorship are common place in the 21st century and increasingly, authors are energetic in conveying their own…
Scottish Philosophy: Project and Legacy
By Gordon Graham The Scottish philosophical tradition found its richest and most influential expression in the investigations Scottish philosophers of…
A taxidermist’s working life in the 19th Century
An April article in Archives of natural history gives a fascinating insight into the life of Charles Francis Adams, a…
What does neuroscience offer to dance? What does dance offer to neuroscience?
“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide…
Leonardo Da Vinci and Samuel Beckett – implausible bed fellows?
An Italian Renaissance polymath, most known for his notebooks and paintings, Leonardo Da Vinci is still widely considered an enigma.…
Scoring Film: An Interview with Neil Brand
Neil Brand is a well-known composer, prolific British dramatist, writer and pianist, who designed and presented a three part-series for BBC…
Robert Burns, Digital Whistle-Blowing, and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
By Robert Crawford For the first time since 1707 (more than half a century before Burns was born), the population…