In the first half of the nineteenth century developments in the new science of geology presented a fresh vision of the history of the earth as both immeasurably long and punctuated by periodic glob...

Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics

Clive Anderson and guests have their very own Burns Supper.

Shetland fiddler and singer-songwriter Claire White launches a short film about Marion Pardone, a Shetland woman who was executed in 1644 under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.

YouTube video by DIGITAL IMAGING UNIT University of Edinburgh

Any major new scientific theory experiences a period of reception after publication in which it is examined, questioned, subject to criticism and put to the test. During this period, which can and …

Abstract. Dating from the middle of the nineteenth century, prominent paranormal researchers in Britain and the United States began to claim that they coul