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Q&A: Television Drama in Mexico
Read more: Q&A: Television Drama in MexicoPaul Julian Smith reflects on visiting Mexico City whilst researching his new book.
Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner
Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have had a bad press. The view of many people of the Highland Clearances comes from John Prebble’s book. First published…
Investigating Scotland’s land issues, past, present and future
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional position of the landed interest.’ Benjamin Disraeli So said the Conservative politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the late…
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government in April 2017 was because of the perception that the Crown Estate Commissioners in London focussed too narrowly on securing…