2019 marks 100 years of the Spanish degree at the University of Edinburgh. An exhibition and series of events are taking place to mark the occasion, under the ‘Conectando’ banner.This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that saw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and led to Spain being rul…

November 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought the First World War to an end. More than 15 million people died in the conflict, which ushered in a horrifying new type of industrial slaughter; high explosive shells, poison gas, aircraft, machine guns, and tanks mechanised killing to a brutal new level. Now, a …

Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a discussion with this year’s winners of Britain’s oldest literary awards. Eimear McBride, winner of the fiction prize for The Lesser Bohemians, talks about her modernist novel, set in the bedsits and fraught headspaces of 1990s London. Laura Cumming, winner of the biography prize for her …

We all love a conspiracy theory: 9/11 was an inside job; the moon landings were faked; Princess Diana was assassinated. There is a thrill in joining the dots between seemingly random events and discovering hidden patterns. As the University hosts Edinburgh Spy Week, the annual event that examines espionage fiction and film and the ways in which sec…