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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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‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

Edinburgh University Press
November 14, 2024

A spread of images and drawings of ballerinas

Lost in translation: The influence of André Levinson and Arnold Haskell in Spain

by Ana Abad-Carlés and Marina Peñaranda-Abad Our article for Dance Research 41(2) came to us in a very serendipitous way, when we saw that the Prologue to the Spanish edition of Serge Lifar’s book La Danse had been written by…

Edinburgh University Press
March 11, 2024

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

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Lost in translation: The influence of André Levinson and Arnold Haskell in Spain

‘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?