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.

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Event schedule

Semester 2, 2019/20

Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
Thursday 16 Jan	Dr Alex Murdoch (University of Edinburgh)	‘Avoiding the Union: Scotland, 1651 to 1702’
Thursday 23 Jan	Professor Adam Fox (University of Edinburgh)	‘Cheap print and society in Early Modern Scotland’	01M.469, Teaching room 12, Doorway 3, Old Medical School
Thursday 30 Jan	Dr Ewan Gibbs (University of the West of Scotland)	'Coal country: The meaning and memory of deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’
Thursday 6 Feb	Dr Kathrin Zickermann (University of the Highlands and Islands)	‘Alexander Erskein (1598-1656): Swedish resident, war councillor and peace negotiator’
Thursday 13 Feb	Dr Michelle Brock (Washington and Lee University)	‘Ministers and intimations: The making of a Covenanted community, 1638-1646’
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’
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)’
Thursday 12 Mar	Sonny Angus (University of Edinburgh)	‘Jugs, mugs and banners: The material culture of Scottish Radicalism, 1820-1884’
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
Thursday 26 Mar	Professor Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh)	‘The Scottish Romanesque Revival Revisited – Again’
Thursday 2 Apr	Professor Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)	‘Scotland in the Gough Map (c. 1400)’

Semester 1, 2019/20
Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
Thursday 26 Sept	Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh)	‘Political parties in seventeenth-century Scotland’
Thursday 3 Oct	Mark McLean (National Trust for Scotland)	'Scotch on the rocks: Literary identity and anxiety in the Scottish Enlightenment’
Thursday 10 Oct	Kathrin Zickermann (Highlands and Islands)	‘Alexander Erskein (1598-1656): Swedish resident, war councillor and peace negotiator’	*POSTPONED*
Thursday 17 Oct	Lucy Brown (Strathclyde)	‘Negotiating the welfare state: Community art in Scotland 1962-1990’
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
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’
Thursday 7 Nov	Seán Damer (Edinburgh)	‘From the sublime to the ridiculous? A tale of two schemes in interwar Glasgow’	*CANCELLED*
Thursday 14 Nov	Gordon Barclay and Louise Heren (Independent)	‘The Battle for George Square: Myth, memory and reality in Red Clydeside’
Thursday 21 Nov	Andrew McDiarmid (Dundee)	‘Dying to invest: An introduction to tontines as a means of financing cultural and infrastructural projects, 1650-1850’
Thursday 28 Nov	Robbie Johnston (Edinburgh)	‘Rediscovering the union: Margaret Thatcher, the Conservatives and Scotland, 1974-c. 1990’	*CANCELLED*

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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

This article was published on 10 Jan, 2020

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