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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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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 picture of the ceiling of dome to Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine

The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

by Shivan Mahendrarajah The Taliban are back in power, ushering in renewed fears of destruction of cultural heritages. Their first time in office (1996–2001), the Taliban destroyed edifices on the basis that they were ‘un-Islamic’ and/or ‘beacons’ for polytheists (mushrikin).…

Kevin Worrall
September 13, 2021

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

Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

‘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?