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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

April 16, 2025
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“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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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

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

The deployment of the army to Glasgow in 1919

‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

A Deleuzian Conversion

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright

Is There Such a Thing as an Irish Female Child?