Commentary: the Scottish scene

Crime Scene or Event Scene?

This article has not an abstract

Places and patterns of drug use in the Scottish dance scene.

Interviews were conducted with 135 participants in the Glasgow dance (rave) scene. Drug use in this group was varied and not merely restricted to drugs associated with dance events, such as MDMA (Ecstasy). The setting in which each drug was used varied greatly. Amphetamine, nitrites and Ecstasy were the drugs most commonly used at dance events. Pharmaceuticals were least likely to be used in su...

The Scottish Book Mathematics from the Scottish Cafe

The Scottish National Party

During their lifetime, political parties face a range of strategic dilemmas. Some involve the dilemma between vote, office and policy success (Strøm 1990; De Winter 1998: 238-40). Some revolve around the exact nature of party goals, policies or coalition strategies. However, in some cases, parties also face some fundamental strategic and organisational choices about whether to become parties at...

The early Scottish microscopes.

opened in Parliamentary Road, near the Royal Infirmary, in 1814. His portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn now hangs in Gartnavel Hospital. The students in Glasgow seem to have participated only to a limited extent in resurrectionist activities. Nevertheless, under the bold leadership of Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison (1791-1851), a lecturer on anatomy and surgery in the Andersonian School, they drew lot...