News in April 1999

An expert on the education of women in Britain is to argue that there is a need to study the ‘private’ domain (family and community) when looking at the history of how women in Britain have been educated since they are largely absent from male historical accounts and from standard...

A major new discovery by a researcher from the University of Aberdeen has unlocked the secret of writing on standing stones which has baffled scholars for hundred of years.Dr Richard Cox, a lecturer in the University’s Department of Celtic has discovered that the inscriptions on the Pictish symbol stones characteristic...