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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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Colour drawing of a staged theatrical scene framed by two symmetrical classical structures with niches containing gilded statues, flanked by trees. At the centre, a painted backdrop shows an island within an archipelago, with a visible settlement; in the foreground, a vessel approaches the shore. Four figures stand before the backdrop holding branches and other objects. The composition is enclosed within a thin rectangular gold border.

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

This interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.

Edinburgh University Press
May 8, 2026

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Discover five standout audio productions of Shakespeare's works, picked by Andrea Smith, author of Shakespeare on the Radio.

Edinburgh University Press
May 1, 2025

Lessons from Scottish Schools

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

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

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