How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.
Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1 and 2? Read them here! Part 1Part 2 The Scottish Historical Review was the natural home for this article: based upon a Scot’s actions in parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and his role…
Stephen Mullen Missed Part 1? Read it here! I was a reluctant and unintentional scholar of Henry Dundas. Whilst examining the West India Committee records in the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad in 2016, I stumbled…
Stephen Mullen Since 2016 or thereabouts, there has been considerable public discussion about the role of Henry Dundas (1742–1811) in the debates surrounding the abolition of the slave trade in the House of Commons after 1792. Dundas was the Lord…
Highland landowners in the decades before and after 1800, and Scots associated with plantation slavery in the same period, have had a bad press. The view of many people of the Highland Clearances comes from John Prebble’s book. First published…
By Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of a life lived in activism and an unceasing fight for social justice. But there are other names in the life…