Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave…
Tag: Scottish History
Scottish History
British History
Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner
Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…
Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…
British History
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…