Edward J. Cowan, ed. <i>The People's Past: Scottish Folk, Scottish History</i>

Editing the Past: Cosmo Innes and the Scottish Medieval Church

In 1832 the Maitland Club published an edition of the register of Paisley Abbey, a sixteenth century manuscript detailing, through transcripts of original charters and other documents, the institution’s property and privileges. This publication was the first of its kind in Scotland and was the work of the lawyer, historian and record scholar Cosmo Innes (17981874). He went on to edit a further ...

The Scottish Book Mathematics from the Scottish Cafe

10 Contemporary Scottish cinema

In an article in the Scottish cultural magazine, The Drouth, Mark Cousins provocatively bemoaned the lack of a vibrant film culture in Scotland. Putting Iran's cinematic achievements forward as a – perhaps surprising – example, Cousins identifies several reasons for Scotland's underdevelopment, most of which revolve around a lack of experimentation and a general absence of interest in exploring...

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...