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Significant art works rediscovered in rural schools
Dr Kate Cowcher (centre) and St Andrews alumni and project research assistants, Meredith Loper and Elikem Logan, with modern African artworks at Lochgilphead High School, March 2019.
An overlooked collection of modern African art in Argyll and Bute schools has been rediscovered by academics at the University of St Andrews.
New research reveals that they are by some of the continent’s most notable modernist artists; together they provide a range of insights into the interests and concerns that pervaded the era of independence.
The collection, which belongs to Argyll and Bute Council will now go on public display.
Article by Ken Patterson AMIChemE and Fiona Macleod CEng FIChemE
Last year, IChemE’s President Stephen Richardson took the unusual step of writing to India’s Prime Minister about the aftermath of the accident in Bhopal. Ken Patterson and Fiona Macleod discuss the background to the letter and ask for members’ help in bringing this tragedy to a final end
IN 2014, on the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident, the
Loss Prevention Bulletin (
LPB) published a special edition with all its articles focussed on the Bhopal tragedy.
One article was from the New Delhi-based research and advocacy body, the Centre for Science and Environment. It summarised work by state and non-state bodies concerning the soil and water on and around the Bhopal site. The message was distressingly clear: the site was still significantly contaminated; the contamination was leaking into the groundwater; the contamination of the site and groundwater continued to seriously affect the
By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
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Author William Sharp, left, wrote under the pen name Fiona MacLeod. Lady Augusta Gregory wrote versions of Celtic stories akin to those of WB Yeats BY some accounts, 19th-century Gaelic poetry is less impressive than that of the preceding century, yet on the evidence of Donald E Meek’s anthology of poems from that era, Caran an t-Saoghail/The Wiles of the World, it is rich and intricately connected with the processes of industrialisation, colonialism and imperial expansion, and thus also with what was happening in contemporary Scottish literature in English and Scots. Gaelic is essential to the national story.