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As the country reels from a series of killings of Black men by the police, two scholars report that their research shows that stops by police of Black men can hurt their families.
The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of ‘northern Britain’ seem hard to shake.
Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.
Two major trials in the killings of black victims in South Carolina start this week. Learn about the state’s past and present struggle with racial violence in this roundup.
The Catalans have no trouble telling their story of oppression through culture. The Scots find it trickier.
Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
When word reached the Scottish writer of Napoleon’s famous defeat, he promptly travelled to the continent to bear witness to the carnage first-hand
In many states fathers can be incarcerated for failing to pay child support. This is a crisis that needs addressing.
This week sees the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s first novel Waverley. Journalist Stuart Kelly has called Scott “the man who invented a nation” but what is Scott’s relevance…
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Professor of English and Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Culture and Heritage, Heriot-Watt University
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Head of School, Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
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Reader in English, University of Dundee
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Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
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Maurice V Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Social Work, University of Louisville
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Professor of History, University of St Andrews
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Postdoctoral Researcher, English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork