Area was established in 1969 as a bulletin for the Institute of British Geographers (IBG), but has evolved into a full academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG). The mission of ...

EDINBURGH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a two acre patch of land in north Edinburgh's Leith neighbourhood, Evie Murray walks with pride between plots of carefully tended flowers and vegetables.

This paper focuses on aspects of the circulation of Scottish agricultural books in the eighteenth century to 1790. In viewing the books as an object of material culture, it considers a range of ...