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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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An Interview with Warwick Ball, author of The Eurasian Steppe

In this interview, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball discusses his travels and research that led to his new book, The Eurasian Steppe. Can you tell us a bit about The Eurasian Steppe? The book started life many years ago as…

Helena Heald
October 7, 2021

Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

In this exclusive extract from chapter 6 of The Eurasian Steppe, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball explores the material culture of the nomadic Scythians, a cultural group that flourished in the Eurasian Steppe in the first millennium BC. What has…

Helena Heald
September 3, 2021

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

An Interview with Warwick Ball, author of The Eurasian Steppe

Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

‘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?