The great reach of the historian Eric Hobsbawm found its limit at the borders of multinational Britain, says Christopher Harvie.
Scotland's largest city plans to remove Victorian-era statues from a landmark square. A backward move in the name of progress, says Christopher Harvie.
The historical links between Germany and Britain - aristocratic, political, industrial - are full of lost possibility. A retrace of their course suggests that one current should still be retrieved, says Christopher Harvie.
The transformational change I believe to be essential is to recognise the end of the private car. In 1903 the poet John Davidson saw the rise of individual powered transport
The paths of national politics in Scotland and England are ever more divergent. Through a singular mix of intellectual biography, modern history and political critique, Christopher Harvie - bus-pass in hand - draws on the evidence of his own career and work to make sense of the change.
The literature of human fall and frailty illuminates the political fate of Britain’s prime minister.
The social damage of governmental and financial negligence in the banking crisis is clear from the perspective of Scotland’s border-country, finds the scholar-politician Christopher Harvie.
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My text is from the prophet Andrew, son of Marr, at the end of his A History of Modern Britain (2007). "Scotland
The first meeting of Scotland's council of economic advisers (CEA) convenes on 20 September 2007. Among its eleven members are a couple of Nobel prizewinners (Finn E Kydland
The historian Christopher Harvie is a candidate in the election to the Scottish parliament on 3 May 2007. He sees his target seat embodying the conflicting currents of the country
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In Edinburgh University in the 1960s it was possible to study history without ever quitting Adam and Playfair's great quadrangle, with one exception. You had to troop
