Scotland can create a new philosophical revolution to rival the achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and others during the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, writes Jamie Cooke. Did you ...

Mansplaining was rife in the Scottish Enlightenment, with male philosophers deeming what was women’s role in society and pontificating on their level of intelligence, an expert in the 18th century ...

A conversation with David W. R. Purdie MD FRCP Ed. FRSSA FSA Scot. Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh David Purdie is interested in the history, ...

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In 1750 Scotland was much as it had ever been - a poor rural country ruled by its nobles. In two generations the Scottish Enlightenment changed all that, transforming Scotland into a modern capitalist ...

Much of the modern world was created in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The Scottish Enlightenment was more than just the Scottish branch of that great eighteenth-century European movement of ideas ...

Approximately 250 years ago, the windswept and unwelcoming capital of a relatively insignificant northern nation became a beacon of intelligence for the entire world. Edinburgh, which had been widely ...

There’s no better introduction to Edinburgh – the historical, cultural, and political capital of Scotland – than a walk ...

The meeting in 1774 between Lobsang Palden Yeshes (1738–1780), the Third Panchen Lama, and George Bogle (1746–1781), an agent of the East India Company, was the first encounter between Britain and ...

Researchers said traditional clan allegiances were broken down in the 18th Century Researchers have sought to shed light on how the Scottish Enlightenment aided the demise of a violence-dominated ...

TAM grinned to himself as he laced up his new boots. For Chrissake, hadn't he looked forward to this day all year? He'd been brought up on the stories: of booze, and blood, of heads kicked in, of ...

Researchers have sought to shed light on how the Scottish Enlightenment aided the demise of a violence-dominated "code of manhood" in the Highlands. Glasgow University's Centre for Gender History ...