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Lessons from Scottish Schools

Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.

May 14, 2026
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Progress flag emblazoned on office window with rainbow text which says, “Human Rights Are Our Pride.”

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

by Senthorun Raj Do I feel proud? This was a question I reflected on recently while gathered with several sweaty bodies on the streets of Washington DC for World Pride. In the midday heat, among a crowd of thousands, the…

Edinburgh University Press
June 24, 2025

A woman leans forward at an impossible angle into the wind. She is framed by a dark doorway set in a pale red building covered in graffiti.

Trans media’s expanding horizons

Q&A with Paige Macintosh, author of Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media

Edinburgh University Press
June 19, 2025

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Trans media’s expanding horizons

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now

Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’

Diversity and the Physical Reality of the Late Roman World

Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France