Scottish History seminars
The Scottish History research seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.
Time and location
Unless otherwise stated, the seminars begin at 5.15pm, LG.10 David Hume Tower, George Square. All are welcome! Free.
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2019/20
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
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Thursday 16 Jan |
Dr Alex Murdoch (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Avoiding the Union: Scotland, 1651 to 1702’ | |
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Thursday 23 Jan |
Professor Adam Fox (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Cheap print and society in Early Modern Scotland’ | |
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Thursday 30 Jan |
Dr Ewan Gibbs (University of the West of Scotland) | 'Coal country: The meaning and memory of deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’ | |
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Thursday 6 Feb |
Dr Kathrin Zickermann (University of the Highlands and Islands) |
‘Alexander Erskein (1598-1656): Swedish resident, war councillor and peace negotiator’ | |
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Thursday 13 Feb |
Dr Michelle Brock (Washington and Lee University) |
‘Ministers and intimations: The making of a Covenanted community, 1638-1646’ | |
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Thursday 27 Feb |
Dr James Smyth (University of Stirling) |
‘“In all countries where the babies make the laws and customs…”: Infant mortality, c. 1860s to 1920s, a transatlantic study of public health and climate’ | *POSTPONED* |
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Thursday 5 Mar |
Dr Helen Newsome (University of Sheffield) | ‘Secrecy, spies and hidden networks of exchange in the correspondence of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)’ | *POSTPONED* |
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Thursday 12 Mar |
Sonny Angus (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Jugs, mugs and banners: The material culture of Scottish Radicalism, 1820-1884’ | *POSTPONED* |
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Thursday 19 Mar |
Karie Schultz (Queen’s University, Belfast) |
‘The two kingdoms theory and Civil War Scottish political thought, 1637-1646’ With the Scottish History Society |
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Thursday 26 Mar |
Professor Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh) | ‘The Scottish Romanesque Revival Revisited – Again’ | |
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Thursday 2 Apr |
Professor Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Scotland in the Gough Map (c. 1400)’ |
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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Thursday 26 Sept |
Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh) |
‘Political parties in seventeenth-century Scotland’ |
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Thursday 3 Oct |
Mark McLean (National Trust for Scotland) |
'Scotch on the rocks: Literary identity and anxiety in the Scottish Enlightenment’ |
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| Thursday 10 Oct |
Kathrin Zickermann (Highlands and Islands) |
‘Alexander Erskein (1598-1656): Swedish resident, war councillor and peace negotiator’ |
*POSTPONED* |
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Thursday 17 Oct |
Lucy Brown (Strathclyde) |
‘Negotiating the welfare state: Community art in Scotland 1962-1990’ |
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| Thursday 24 Oct | David Headon (Australian National University) |
‘So much more than a Prime Minister: Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)’ In association with ‘The First Eight’ project of the ANU Australian Studies Institute |
Room LG 11, David Hume Tower |
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Thursday 31 Oct |
Andrew Carter (St Andrews) |
‘“An Archbishop graft on a Puritan stock”: James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, and the restoration of episcopacy in Scotland, 1660-1679’ |
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Thursday 7 Nov |
Seán Damer (Edinburgh) |
‘From the sublime to the ridiculous? A tale of two schemes in interwar Glasgow’ |
*CANCELLED* |
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Thursday 14 Nov |
Gordon Barclay and Louise Heren (Independent) |
‘The Battle for George Square: Myth, memory and reality in Red Clydeside’ |
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Thursday 21 Nov |
Andrew McDiarmid (Dundee) |
‘Dying to invest: An introduction to tontines as a means of financing cultural and infrastructural projects, 1650-1850’ |
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| Thursday 28 Nov |
Robbie Johnston (Edinburgh) |
‘Rediscovering the union: Margaret Thatcher, the Conservatives and Scotland, 1974-c. 1990’ |
*CANCELLED* |
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Further information
Please contact the organiser, Dr Alasdair Raffe, for further information.
Dr Alasdair Raffe
Lecturer in History
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Work: 0131 651 4269
- Email: Alasdair.Raffe@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Dr Raffe's staff profile