Murray Pittock
Person on 4 sites
Scottish historian and cultural scholar; Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow; writes on Jacobitism, Scottish and Irish…
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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DNA ethnicity testing based on current national borders reinforces an ahistorical view of identity. (opens korrents.com)
“Unfortunately DNA testing which identifies 'ethnicities' based on current national borders (no-one is ever 38% Burgundian) which appears to be a harmless hobby, reinforces this ahistorical toxin.”
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Higher education has failed to make itself an electoral priority. (opens korrents.com)
“The fundamental issue is that HE is not an electoral priority and has not succeeded in making itself one.”
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Brexit’s economic failure has deepened the disappointment and exceptionalism that led to it. (opens korrents.com)
“The key issue is not non English nationalism but Brexit, which encouraged delusive hopes, nourished arrogant introspection & whose economic failure- just read the large number of studies, don't troll- has intensified…”
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DNA ethnicity testing based on current national borders reinforces an ahistorical view of identity. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Identity of Ulster (opens rcmnd.app)
“The interesting thing about books like The Identity of Ulster is that they’re at the meeting point between the way people imagine their communities—that Benedict Anderson phrase—and history.”
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The Identity of Ulster (opens rcmnd.app)