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First paragraph: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation)(Scotland) Act 2024 (2024 Act) commenced in July 2024. The culmination of decades of work by children, young people, NGOs, elected officials and academics, the 2024 Act incorporates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law with the intention of ensuring a “maximalist approach” to direct legal incorporation by giving “international law direct effect in national law” while ensuring justiciabi...

What constitutes museum experts’ foundational knowledge and presumptions about the Cold War? This chapter builds on ethnographic curiosity about colour in museum settings to answer this question. Colours are a useful lens onto personal and institutional perceptions as well as preconceptions. The act of being asked to call a colour to mind that represented the past was an important indicator of how professionals envisaged the Cold War in museums – infused with cultural references, nostalgia, h...

While much has been said about what ought to be done about the statues and monuments of racist, colonial, and oppressive figures, a significantly undertheorised aspect of the debate is the aesthetics of commemorations. I believe that this philosophical oversight is rather unfortunate. I contend that taking the aesthetic value of commemorations seriously can help us a) better understand how and the extent to which objectionable commemorations are objectionable, b) properly formulate responses ...

This article explores the representation of machinery by industrial workers in the Victorian period, and argues that their writings have a qualitatively different literary approach to machinery than that found in the work of established Victorian authors. It uses little-known poems by Scottish and Northern working-class writers to investigate how they use language and form to reflect upon the place of machinery in their working lives.