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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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A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

By Louise Chapman In 2012, I uncovered an array of boxes containing 177 items of dress in the School of Fashion and Textiles archives at Birmingham City University (BCU). Found in a store cupboard the assemblage included a large selection…

Teri Williams
November 12, 2020

Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin

By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative project partially funded by the British Council and Arts Council England, to don my dress detective hat and study the…

Teri Williams
August 25, 2020
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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin

‘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?