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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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Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.

Carla Hepburn
June 28, 2019

Percy Bysshe Shelley and the British National Anthem

By Alison Morgan ‘A New National Anthem’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley is probably one of his least known poems. Written in 1820, in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, Shelley’s poem is a paean to the female queen Liberty rather…

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May 20, 2014

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

Percy Bysshe Shelley and the British National Anthem

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