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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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Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 3: A case study in the ethics of academic and public history)

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…

Edinburgh University Press
November 12, 2021

The Melville monument overlooking the Edinburgh skyline

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

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…

Edinburgh University Press
November 10, 2021

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

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 3: A case study in the ethics of academic and public history)

Clarifying Henry Dundas’ role as a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the slave trade (Part 1: Historiographical Orthodoxy, Public Debate and Memorialisation)

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

A Deleuzian Conversion

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright

Is There Such a Thing as an Irish Female Child?