Today in Venice for the second stop of my book launch.
22.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary David Rizzio was a political scapegoat
History shows that political anger is often channelled towards outsiders, a pattern that is being repeated today
"Every country has its scapegoats... David Rizzio became one of Scotland’s most haunting."
Read Dr Emanuela Patti's timely piece on why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary was a political scapegoat in @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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Teenage angst has paid off well... Still haunted by film, media and visual culture.
https://iuav.academia.edu/FrancescoZucconi
Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician.
Dean (for four more months), Professor, Film scholar, rescue dog lover, proud LGBTQ+ mom, and New Yorker through and through. All opinions expressed are my own and do not represent any organization with which I am affiliated.
General Co-Editor, "Modern Italy" (Cambridge University Press)
Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
European Media scholar (AI, Dig. Art, Cultural Studies), passionate about HE, ED&I, (DEI), politics, Dark Choc, Inter Milan. Personal capacity posts
Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
Prof of Digital Humanities, Dean for Global Engagement, University of Glasgow. Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure #MDANT
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
Making Scotland the best place in the world to learn, educate, research and innovate. Opening up opportunities for over half a million learners.
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Professor of Education, University of Glasgow
Joint Director, Center for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS)
Teaching for Belonging | Transformative Change | Educator Professional Learning | Marginalized Student Experiences | Theory-Methods
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. https://www.heraldscotland.com
Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
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Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Chair, Royal Economic Society. Economist. President, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Inter Milan fan. Opinions mine.
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature and Philosophy at the University of Calgary / Lover of history, poetry, novels and costume dramas/ Mother of Vicky. /
Italian Canadian Writer from Siena
Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
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