James Boswell was once best known as the author of The Life of Samuel Johnson. In the second half of the twentieth century, he became…
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Peter Chiene was an Edinburgh graduate in law and philosophy who practised as a solicitor in Edinburgh. He died tragically young in an accident on…
Comments closed(Images of Bede and George Buchanan courtesy of Wikipedia Commons) According to the Venerable Bede, the language that linked the varied peoples who inhabited Britain…
Comments closedQ. D. Leavis famously scorned detective fiction as one of the evils of the modern world. Other guardians of “high” culture have likewise despised it. The…
Comments closedOn 25 July 1603, James VI was crowned King of England. A “cradle king” in Scotland, he proved to be a moderate and wise monarch,…
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