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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

April 16, 2025
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Scotland's Land

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

‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional position of the landed interest.’ Benjamin Disraeli So said the Conservative politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the late…

Emma at EUP
September 6, 2018

Scotland's Foreshore

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 in April 2017 was because of the perception that the Crown Estate Commissioners in London focussed too narrowly on securing…

Emma at EUP
July 24, 2018