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  • Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

    by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at […]

    January 27, 2025
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The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them

The editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies introduces the new special issue.
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The facade of the National Library of Scotland.

A Nation Built on Books: The Role of Libraries in Modern Scotland

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  • June 18, 2024

Perspectives from Beyond Scotland’s Borders: Nurturing Innovative, Global Scholarship on Scottish History and Culture for Half a Century

by Kevin James and Melissa Turner Scotland has always had a geographically expansive range of global engagements: its imprint is discernible around the world—not just in the form of permanent settlement, much as its global impact has often been measured…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • December 14, 2023

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