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Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at […]

January 27, 2025
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Black and white image showing the gable end of a house-like building with a figure standing in front of it. Text on the building reads 'Poosie Nansie's Hostelry and the Jolly Beggars Howf Posting Establishment'.

The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them

The editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies introduces the new special issue.

Edinburgh University Press
December 6, 2024

Panorama photograph showing a densely built, colourful city set against a mountain backdrop

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

On the third anniversary of the seizure of Kabul, Robert D. Crews asks how we make sense of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Edinburgh University Press
August 15, 2024

A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’

by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2. The New Americanist continues a tradition of research publication at the American Studies Center (University of Warsaw)—some iteration of the…

Edinburgh University Press
January 31, 2024

Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again

Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews discuss the special issue of CounterText they've recently edited.

Edinburgh University Press
July 19, 2023

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

The curious case of Scottish inns, or what travellers sought and found when they encountered them

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’

Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

Do your movements in sleep resemble artificial frogs?

The use and abuse of antiquity for life

The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A

The US and UK as embedded democracies