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John Sturrock QC enjoys a Poacher's Pilgrimage to the Western Isles and finds this mystical journey is much more than another travel book. The human ecologist, Alastair ...
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Long ago I was introduced to the philosophy of David Hume (1711-76) by the late Neil MacCormick lecturing in the Jurisprudence class at Edinburgh University. It was ...
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In Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances James Hunter masterly weaves together a fascinating account of the Sutherland Clearances. One that takes you from the ...
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It may surprise some readers that the last Communard of this title is not Jimmy Somerville, the shrill voice of the 1980s, but Adrien Lejeune who as ...
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The gavel, a device never used in the English courts, features on the cover of Confessions of a Barrister – and is a harbinger of things to come.
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Blair's broken vows Tom Bower is a barrister turned investigative journalist, a species that is all but extinct in modern Britain. He has produced a string of ...
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Artists as historians What Paintings Say is a wonderful study of 100 masterpieces, lavishly illustrated and packed with history presented in an accessible and readable way.
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Gillian Mawdsley is impressed by Cal Flynn's first novel – inspired by the discovery that one her ancestors was Angus MacMilan, the leader of the notorious Highland ...
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Danielle Keats Citron's Hate Crimes in Cyberspace makes for uncomfortable but important reading for lawyers in the 21st century. With an excellent understanding of how the Internet ...
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My first realisation that Britain was in the grip of gin mania came via my fashionable young niece. Then signs announcing the arrival of 'Gin Bars' began ...
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Book of revelations It was revealed last week that Scottish police had access to GCHQ’s project MILKWHITE in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, reminding us, in the ...
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Rediscovering Scotland's tragic High Priestess of the Grotesque She called herself the High Priestess of the Grotesque and she never shied away from subjects other artists would ...
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Welcome to SLN's new book review feature where we review some of the latest non-fiction books that may be of interest to our readers. In our first ...
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George Wyllie and the Glasgow arts revival George Wyllie is remembered as a bunnet-wearing, boiler-suited artist in late middle age who burst onto the contemporary art scene ...
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