Publications, Libraries and Archives

Information about our libraries, past conferences, symposia and projects is archived here, as well as links to IASH's many in-house publications since the 1970s.

Libraries

  • The Susan Manning Library

Books and journals from the collection of Professor Susan Manning (1953-2013), Grierson Professor of English Literature and IASH Director 2007-13. A full catalogue is available on request, but books cannot be removed from the Institute.

  • The Timothy Sprigge Library

Books and journals from the library of Professor Timothy L.S. Sprigge (1932-2007), Regius Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, 1979-1989. A full catalogue is available on request, but books cannot be removed from the Institute.

  • Fellows' Publications

Many former IASH fellows have generously donated publications to the Institute, forming a valuable resource across a range of disciplines and languages. A full catalogue is available on request, but books cannot be removed from the Institute.

  • Karina Williamson donations

Honorary IASH Fellow Karina Williamson generously left much of her personal library with us on her retirement. A full catalogue is available on request, but books cannot be removed from the Institute.

We also regularly publish essays, papers and books by Fellows as part of our long-running Occasional Papers series.

Publications

To request a free copy of any of our books, please email iash@ed.ac.uk with your full postal address.

 

  • Europe Redefined, Richard McAllister, 1991. ISBN 0 9514854 1 5.

 

  • Europe: Ways Forward, Mark Russell & Richard McAllister, 1992. ISBN 0 9514854 2 3.

 

  • Constitutions, Ninian Stephen & Indigenous Peoples, Paul Reeves, 1993. ISBN 0 9514854 3 1. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6883 Download PDF version here. 
    If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print or a coloured background, please contact us at iash@ed.ac.uk or +44 (0)131 650 4671.

 

  • Indigenous Peoples & Ethnic Minorities, Peter Jones, 1993. ISBN 0 9514854 4 X.

 

  • Educational Values, Peter Jones, 1994. ISBN 0 9514854 5 8.

 

  • Family Values in the Mediterranean, Peter Jones, 1994. ISBN 0 9514854 6 6. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6884 Download PDF version here. 
    If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print or a coloured background, please contact us at iash@ed.ac.uk or +44 (0)131 650 4671.

 

  • Post-Communist Transition: Realities and Perspectives, Ivan Antonovich, 1996. ISBN 0 9514854 7 4. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6885 Download PDF version here. 
    If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print or a coloured background, please contact  iash@ed.ac.uk or +44 (0)131 650 4671.

 

  • Value, Values and the British Army, Patrick Mileham, 1996.  ISBN 0 9514854 8 2. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6886 Download PDF version here. 
    If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print or a coloured background, please contact iash@ed.ac.uk or +44 (0)131 650 4671.

 

  • Commonwealth Lectures, ed. Peter Jones, 1997.  ISBN 0 9514854 9 0. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6887 Download PDF version here. 
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  • The Enlightened Virago: Princess Dashkova through the Eyes of Others, Georgina Barker, 2019. ISBN 0 9532713 0 6. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6899 Download PDF version here. 
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  • Humanities of the Future: Perspectives from the Past and Present, ed. Ben Fletcher-Watson & Jana Phillips, 2020. ISBN 0 9532713 1 3. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6900 Download PDF version here. 
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  • The White Canvas: An Exhibition Catalogue, Shatha Altowai, 2021. ISBN 0 9532713 2 0. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6902 Download PDF catalogue here. 
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  • Emerging Canon, Contested Histories: Global Art Historians in Conversation, ed. Francesco Gusella and Meha Priyadarshini, 2021. ISBN 0 9532713 3 7. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6903
    Download PDF version here. This is an eBook only - there is no print edition.

 

  • R|D: Articulation and Representational Divergence, Victor Peterson II, 2022. ISBN 0 9568610 4 7. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6904 Download PDF version here. 
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  • Our Time Is A Garden: New Nature Writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour, ed. Alycia Pirmohamed, 2023. ISBN 0 9568610 5 4. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6905 Download PDF version here. 
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  • Enduring Violence in America: Two Essays, Theodore Louis Trost, 2023. ISBN 0 9568610 6 1. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6930 Download PDF version here. 
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  • После третьего звонка [After The Third Bell], ed. and transl. E.M., 2023. ISSN 2634-7342. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6929 Download PDF version here. 
    This is an eBook only - there is no print edition.

 

  • Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 1, ed. Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lesley McAra and Désha Osborne, 2024. ISBN 0 9568610 7 8. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6926
    Download PDF version here. 
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  • ‘Transgressing into poetry’: Nationality, Gender and Sexuality in Sonnets from Scotland by Edwin Morgan (1984) and The Price of Stone by Richard Murphy (1985), Tara Stubbs, 2024. ISSN 2634-7342. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6928
    Download PDF version here. This is an eBook only - there is no print edition.

     

  • Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2, ed. Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lesley McAra and Désha Osborne, 2025. 
    ISBN 0 9568610 9 2. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/6927
    Download PDF version here. 
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  • Lioness, Captive, Visionary: what does it mean to be a dangerous woman?​, ed. Ben Fletcher-Watson and Jayni Makwana, 2026.
    ISSN 2634-7342. DOI https://doi.org/10.7488/era/7815

    Download PDF version here. This is an eBook only - there is no print edition.

     

  • Our Time Is A Garden: New Nature Writing by Writers of Colour, Volume 2, ed. Alycia Pirmohamed, 2026
    ISBN 0 9568610 8 5. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/7944
    Download PDF version here.
    If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print or a coloured background, please contact us at iash@ed.ac.uk or +44 (0)131 650 4671.

 

 

 


The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, John Frow (ed.), March 2002.

Visual Knowledges, John Frow (ed.), 2003.

IASH Timeline 1969-2020, Amy McMonagle (ed.), 2020.

Bryan Edwards (1743-1800), Karina Williamson (ed.), 2021.

Digital Museum of Sufi Stories and Art by Children and Families, Hamide Elif Üzümcü (ed.), 2026.


Project publications accompanying Institute Exhibitions:

  • The Scottish Enlightenment 1730-1790: A Hotbed of Genius, David Daiches, Peter Jones and Jean Jones (eds.), The Saltire Society, 1996. 
    ISBN 0 85411 069 0. 
    (reprint of A Hotbed of Genius, Edinburgh University Press, 1986; ISBN 85224 537 8)
     
  • Revolutions in Science 1789-1989, Jean Jones, 1989. 
    ISBN 0 9514854 0 7.
     
  • Morals, Motives & Markets: Adam Smith 1723-90, Jean Jones, 1990. 
    ISBN 0 9516377 0 3. 
    Download PDF version here.
     

The Institute is also pleased to host the digital resource on the life of Bryan Edwards (1743-1800), compiled by Honorary Fellow Dr Karina Williamson. The Bryan Edwards website brings together images, genealogies, original documents and sources to give a fuller and more accurate account of the life, writings, and career of Edwards, known in his time as a politician, merchant, planter, enslaver and historian of the British West Indies.

View the Bryan Edwards website | https://www.bryan-edwards.iash.ed.ac.uk/


  • Scott Bicentenary Essays: selected papers read at the Sir Walter Scott Conference, Alan Bell (ed.), Scottish Academic Press, 1973. 
    ISBN 0 70111 987 4.
     
  • Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, Peter Jones (ed.), John Donald Publishers, 1988. 
    ISBN 0 85976 225 4.
     
  • The Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment: Hume, Reid and their Contemporaries, Peter Jones (ed.), Edinburgh University Press, 1989. 
    ISBN 0 7486 0109 0.
     
  • Adam Smith Reviewed, Peter Jones and Andrew Skinner (eds.), Edinburgh University Press, 1992. 
    ISBN 0 7486 0346 6.
     
  • The Art of Being Dangerous: exploring women and danger through creative expression, Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson (eds.), Leuven University Press, 2021 (EU orders) and Cornell University Press, 2022 (USA orders). 
    ISBN 9 7894 6270 272 1.
     
  • Dangerous Women: fifty reflections on women, power and identity, Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh (eds.), Unbound, 2022. 
    ISBN 9 7818 0018 064 2.
     
  • Women Who Dared: from the infamous to the forgotten, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Jo Shaw (eds.), Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 
    ISBN 9 781 39954 944 8.

Two stacks of books in the foreground, and the interior of the Law Library in the background, with bookcases and students sitting at desks studying.

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