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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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Three Ways to Counter a Propaganda Narrative (and How Iraqi Writers under Saddam Hussein Did it)

When I first started my research on propaganda and culture in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the study of propaganda was considered rather dated, or was relegated to the study of European fascism, Stalinism or dictatorships in post-colonial nation states. Even…

Helena Heald
September 30, 2020

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Three Ways to Counter a Propaganda Narrative (and How Iraqi Writers under Saddam Hussein Did it)

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