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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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Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 1

By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial (on the significance of Victorian) appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Victoriographies Volume 7. People soak up time like sponges. They steep themselves in it, amass it…

Teri Williams
February 6, 2017

English soldiers play football in France 1916, Courtesy of Imperial War Museum

The Football Pitch, England and the First World War

At the start of September 1914, less than a month after the outbreak of the First World War, the Football Association (FA), issued a mandate stating that clubs should offer up their fields ‘for use as Drill Grounds’. In an…

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August 5, 2014

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

Thanks for all the fish’ and Other Old Clichés – Part 1

The Football Pitch, England and the First World War

‘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?