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Tag: Scottish History

Scottish History

Lord Seaforth
British History

Lord Seaforth: Highland proprietor in the age of the Clearances and plantation slave owner

posted by Emma at EUP October 29, 20185 min read1187 Views

Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have…

Blackhill
Scottish History

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing

posted by Emma at EUP October 26, 20186 min read1250 Views

Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…

Scotland's Land
British History

Investigating Scotland’s land issues, past, present and future

posted by Emma at EUP September 6, 20185 min read1042 Views

‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…

Scotland's Foreshore
British History

It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest

posted by Emma at EUP July 24, 20189 min read1007 Views

One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…

Hamish Henderson
Language and Literature

Hamish Henderson and our Historical Moment

posted by Emma at EUP October 3, 20176 min read1627 Views

What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…

Viking Law and Order
Law

Viking Law and Order

posted by Emma at EUP September 14, 20175 min read3233 Views

My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…

The Edinburgh Festivals
Cultural Studies

Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival

posted by Emma at EUP August 11, 201713 min read1624 Views

An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…

Religion

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

posted by Emma at EUP August 7, 20175 min read1888 Views

What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…

Scottish History

Scottish Migration Since 1600

posted by Emma at EUP August 4, 20174 min read1593 Views

Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…

British History

St Andrew’s Day celebrations in Asia

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals November 28, 20165 min read3139 Views

By Tanja Bueltmann As St Andrew’s Day nears Scots all around the world are preparing to celebrate it in style….

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