Excerpt from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
07 Jun '22
“I never had a childhood,” James Baldwin told a French interviewer in 1974. To a journalist ten years earlier, he proclaimed, “I did not have...
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COP26: What does the 1.5°C warming target mean?
01 Nov '21
Today marks the beginning of formal discussions between world leaders at the COP26 climate change conference being hosted in Glasgow. In...
Reappraising the caricature – Extract from Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical
09 Sep '21
Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed...
Extract from A Drop in the Ocean by Polly Pullar
17 Aug '21
In A Drop in the Ocean, Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small communities through the colourful...
Visiting Dunkeld on a Tricycle – Extract from The Highlands by Paul Murton
26 Jul '21
Paul Murton, a documentary filmmaker known for The Grand Tours of Scotland, journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish...
The Squirrels’ Return: Extract from A Scurry of Squirrels by Polly Pullar
19 Jul '21
This month we published A Scurry of Squirrels, the new book by Polly Pullar which tells of her work in wildlife rehabilitation, and her lifelong...
‘The Midsummer Music’ from An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
21 Jun '21
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet, and is now back in print for the first time in over...
‘This sceptred isle’: Extract from Fringed with Mud and Pearls
11 May '21
In the newly published Fringed with Mud and Pearls, Ian Crofton embarks on a personal odyssey to a number of the islands encircling England,...
Canoeing on Loch Awe: Extract from The Unremembered Places
27 Apr '21
Scotland abounds with wild and uninhabited places, and its tiny islands are arguably some of the most undisturbed of all, each with their own unique...
The Lady Tram Driver Has Arrived: Women’s History Month V
29 Mar '21
In 1915, Glasgow was the first city in Britain to hire female tram drivers, partly as a result of the deficit of male workers during the war. This...
Waking Up on Iona: Alistair Moffat goes In Search of Angels
27 Mar '21
Alistair Moffat roamed across Scotland’s western seaboard looking for traces of the saints who first brought Christianity to these shores....
Spring flowers: Silver Birch from Scottish Plant Lore
23 Mar '21
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is home to an enormous collection of plants, both native to Scotland and from all corners of the globe. In...
