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Mission to chart a 3D map of the Milky Way
The second release of results from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission takes place to the world scientific community. Gaia Data Release 2 (GDR2) marks an enormous step forwards for astronomy, providing a map of the Milky Way galaxy in orders of
1986 - IASH at 50
Professor Peter Jones is appointed Director of the Institute.
The Highland Clearances: A Reassessment | Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
This article reassesses a major and controversial field, and its remit dictates its length. Firstly, it reviews the scholarship of the Highland Clearances (c.1760–1860) and Land Agitation (1870s/80...
The Dynamics between the Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Polity in Modern Ethiopia and Its Role in Establishing Peace in the Country | Studies in World Christianity
The interaction between the Orthodox Church and the state in Ethiopia has undergone various phases throughout the country's history. Emperor Haile Selassie, who came to power in 1930, sought to mod...
1987 - IASH at 50
Mrs Sophia M.W. Gifford makes a second donation of £250,000 to IASH.Visiting speakers include Sir James Craig, Malcolm Bowie, Marcus Singer and Yves Bonnefoy.
Aspiration and Folly: Charles Calmer Hart, Afghanistan, and the Inland Oil Concession | Afghanistan
This paper chronicles the improbable saga of the Inland Exploration Company and its abortive oil concession within Afghanistan. Led by former US diplomat Charles Calmer Hart and geologist Frederick...
An Early Ḥijāzī Qur’an Fragment at the Dār al-Kutub and its Berlin Counterpart | Journal of Qur'anic Studies
This paper examines two early Ḥijāzī Qurʾān fragments held at the Dār al-Kutub (Ms. 247 Maṣāḥif) in Cairo and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Ms. or. fol. 4313) in Berlin. It begins with an overview of...
Dark Empathy: Algernon Blackwood and the Aesthetics of Rapture | Gothic Studies
Processes of becoming, of transformation or transmutation, are central to Algernon Blackwood’s ghostly weird fiction. In the vast majority of his short stories, everyday people, places, and events ...
Audrey Murfin. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of CollaborationL. M. Ratnapalan. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity | International Review of Scottish Studies
Dr . Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but also of the embedded narratives of The Dynamiter or The Wrecker or any number of other texts where Stevenson enacts a conflict between collaboration and ... Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin:
2015 - IASH at 50
To celebrate welcoming it's 1000th Fellow (Professor Mathew Bampton), IASH celebrates with a Open Day and Reunion in 2015.