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When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.

February 18, 2025
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Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival

An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947, the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama opened with a service of praise in St Giles’ Cathedral, the…

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August 11, 2017

When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival

When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry

Catastrophic Technology: Perspectives on the end of the world

He Stuttered: A Letter from Gilles Deleuze

A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish Parliament