School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Research Projects *INCLUDE*

Details of the School's research projects

Archaeology research projects

Current research project includes.

Another world? East Africa and the global 1960s *INCLUDE*

‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ seeks to understand and explain how East Africa’s global connections systematically broke down after independence, opening up a set of new and unpredictable paths forward.

Enslaved Childhoods: Redefining Roman Slavery

This three year project, lead by Dr Ulrike Roth, explores the role of child slavery in the Roman world.

Literacy through Latin *INCLUDE*

A program (working with the Iris Project) which connects volunteers who know Latin with classrooms in Edinburgh Council primary schools.

Artisans and the Craft Economy in Scotland 1780-1914 *INCLUDE*

This three year project, directed by Professor Stana Nenadic, takes a contemporary approach to craft, applied to Scotland, c. 1780-1914

Alice Thornton's Books: Remembrances of a Woman's Life in the Seventeenth Century *INCLUDE*

This three year project, directed by Professor Cordelia Beattie, will produce a digital edition of the four extant manuscripts written by Alice Thornton (1626-1707).

Transimperial Blackness: Slavery & Freedom in Jamaica & New Granada, 1655-1810 *INCLUDE*

'Transimperial Blackness: Slavery & Freedom in Jamaica & New Granada, 1655-1810' is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and will run from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2023.

A History of Distributed Cognition *INCLUDE*

A 3 year project, funded by the AHRC, exploring historical expressions of the philosophical notion that cognition is distributed across brain, body and world.

Mapping Edinburgh's Social History *INCLUDE*

Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History (MESH) is a path-breaking AHRC funded project that uses data based on addresses and areas to represent historical information. It provides a spatial dimension that enriches and enhances an understanding of the past.

Teaching slavery in Scotland *INCLUDE*

Historians from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh are working with teachers and historians elsewhere to build a network to develop history teaching in Scotland about Atlantic slavery and Black history.