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A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid Empire
Read more: A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid EmpireA tribute to a lifelong scholar, this blog explores the travels and research behind Coinages in the Achaemenid Empire.
I Like Your Idea. Here’s Mine – Film-Philosophy and a World of Cinemas
By David Martin-Jones At the heart of “Film-Philosophy and a World of Cinemas” is discussion of a contentious and at…
A century of temperance in alcohol policy and licensing law
By Stuart MacLennan “Crackdowns” on alcohol my well be de rigueur, but they are most certainly not novel. The early…
When conservation is not enough
By Dominic Hinde In its nine years in power, Scotland’s Scottish National Party (SNP) government has sought to redefine many…
Mass Tourism and New Representations of Gender in Late Francoist Spain
By Mary Nash By the 1960s the right to paid holidays and the development of cheap package tours facilitated mass…
2015 round-up: Most read in Edinburgh Journals
2015 was a great year for Edinburgh University Press Journals. We published over 750 articles across 39 journals, several of…
Evolutionary Theory and Its Monstrous Wonders
By Donna McCormack Evolutionary theory is a contentious issue, with even its own scientific veracity being denied. It is a…
Play, Scale and Literature
By Ivan Callus Recent work across literary theory has placed questions of scale in the foreground of critical debate. What…
Highland sheep farming, 1850-1900
In this post, James Hunter reflects on an article he wrote for the very first volume of Northern Scotland published…
Baudelaire in strange places
What has a nineteenth-century French poet got to do with 1960s American electronica? The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) published his…