Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.
Dr Edward Stewart looks to the past to suggest an alternative future for Scotland's 'wild' places.
Duncan Sim on the founding of the Claymore magazine and its impact on Scottish identity
Alasdair Raffe introduces 'The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560-1707'
Douglas Cawthorne on the mystery of the maritime petroglyph and its possible use in North Sea trade networks
Véronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
From royal gifts to diabolic manifestations, Nicole Maceira Cumming explores the varied ways dogs appear in the historical record
Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross
Allan Kennedy gives an introduction to criminality in 17th-century Scotland with four infamous crimes.
Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.