Scottish History research seminars, 2013 - 2014
All seminars are on Thursdays at 6pm in Room G.13 William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place.
Date | Title | Speaker | |
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16 January 2014 | Understandings of Scotland and Scottishness in Peace and Environmental Activists' Oral Histories | Imogen Michel, University of Edinburgh | |
23 January 2014 | The Demise of the 'Bonny Fechter': Popular Politics in interwar Scotland | Malcolm Petrie, University of St Andrews | |
30 January 2014 | Zealots, Professors, Atheists and Hollow Hearts: Scottish Protestantism, 1560-1600 Anatomized | Professor Michael Lynch, University of Edinburgh | |
6 February 2014 | The politics of local and national clientage networks in early seventeenth-century Scotland | Adrienne Miller, University of Edinburgh | |
13 February 2014 | ‘After the Bruces’: the Stewart crown, Ireland and the politics of the wider Gaelic world, c.1390-1495 | Simon Peter Egan, University College Cork | (A JOHN BANNERMAN SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND) |
20 February 2014 | No seminar | Innovative Learning Week | |
27 February 2014 | Moderatism and Enlightenment in the eighteenth century | Dr Thomas Ahnert, University of Edinburgh | |
6 March 2014 | 'Cherchez la femme': seeking women's voices in the long nineteenth century | Dr Esther Breitenbach, University of Edinburgh | (JOINT SEMINAR WITH THE GENDER HISTORY SEMINAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) |
13 March 2014 | Roman Catholic seminarians and belonging in the nineteenth century: the Scots College Paris 1793-1878 | Iida Saarinen, University of Edinburgh | |
20 March 2014 | The origins of the Scottish plantations in Ulster: a(nother) re-interpretation | Dr Alison Cathcart, University of Strathclyde | |
27 March 2014 | Hebridean Croft Schemes of the 1920s and 30s - What did they achieve? | Dr Bob Chambers | (A JOHN BANNERMAN SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND) |
3 April 2014 | 'For the Common Profit': The Scottish Political Community in the Later Fifteenth Century | Claire Hawes, University of St Andrews |
Date | Title | Speaker | |
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26 September 2013 | Accounting for the Common Good: change and continuity within Edinburgh's municipal expenditure in the age of reform c.1820-56 | Malcolm Noble, University of Edinburgh | |
3 October 2013 | Scottish Bounty Whalers, Inuits & the Northwest Passage | Dr Eric Graham, University of Edinburgh | * |
10 October 2013 | Homicide in 18th Century Scotland – Numbers and Theories | Dr Bill Knox, University of St Andrews | |
17 October 2013 | Spa Waters and Spies: Mary Queen of Scots Visits Buxton, 1572-1578 | Cathy Guiader, University of Edinburgh | |
24 October 2013 | Lady lairds and lineage: never-married gentlewomen and family inheritance in early 19th-century Scotland | Dr Alison Duncan | |
31 October 2013 | The Scottish Diaspora and the development of ‘otherised’ military labour in the British Empire, c.1740-c.1840 | Dr Matthew Dziennik, University of Edinburgh | * |
7 November 2013 | A Highlander abroad: British and Irish expatriate networks east of the Rhine as recorded in the Triennial Travels of James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709) | Dr David Worthington, University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History | * |
14 November 2013 | 'To mak a man sa gud': The negotiation of chivalric virtues in 'The Bruce' and 'The Wallace' | Callum Watson, University of Edinburgh | |
21 November 2013 | ‘Our Worthy Countrymen’?: Highland Development and the West Indies, 1750-1850 | Dr Karly Kehoe, Glasgow Caledonian University | * |
28 November 2013 | The Latin Renaissance in Reformation Scotland: initial findings from research on the 'Bridging the Continental Divide' project | Dr Steven Reid, University of Glasgow |
* In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies