What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
Tag: Scottish History
Scottish History
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…
By Tanja Bueltmann As St Andrew’s Day nears Scots all around the world are preparing to celebrate it in style….
In the May 2015 issue of the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Eric Grant and Alistair Mutch explore the intertwined…
In the November 2014 edition of Architectural Heritage John Gifford explores the history, origin and alternative designs of the National…
The Surrounding Burghs’ Resistance to Glasgow’s Municipal Expansion, c. 1869–1912 By the mid-nineteenth century Scotland’s industrial revolution had resulted in…