By John Reuben Davies Read the editorial introduction from The Innes Review: 70th Anniversary Virtual Collection, which is free to…
Tag: Scottish History
Scottish History
Biography is a dangerous genre for any historian. Inevitably it has to be set in the history of the subject’s…
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author…
British History
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…
Hannah Holtschneider introduces her new book focussing on the life of Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and his place in Scottish Jewish History.
By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…
Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave…
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…