As part of an international team of leading history academics we investigated some of the less known aspects of Scotland’s past. Firstly we uncovered the considerable role Scotland played in the transatlantic slavery trade.
Conversely however Scotland society tends to be relatively tolerant of migrant communities. Intrigued to explore the roots of how more tolerant societies may be created, we also researched Scotland’s more recent global migration history with the aim of uncovering the relationship between historical and contemporary global approaches.