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  • 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.

    June 2, 2026
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Battle of George Square troops

“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square

Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’ on 31 January 1919. This followed another paper published shortly before, summarising the results of my searches in the archives.…

  • Teri Williams
  • February 24, 2020
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The deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919

‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919. In November 2017 I needed to distract myself while sitting by my wife’s hospital…

  • Teri Williams
  • October 3, 2018
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