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 in Room G. 14, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG. All are welcome!
Event schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
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| Thursday 17 Jan |
Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh) |
‘A climate of fear? Scottish Universities and Devolution, 1974-1979’ |
CANCELLED |
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Thursday 24 Jan |
Andrew Simpson (University of Aberdeen) |
‘The “invention” of Scots Law in the 1560s’ |
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Thursday 31 Jan |
Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh) |
‘The Scottish sinologist and missionary scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Translation and knowledge transfer in science and technology to and from 1850s China’ |
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| Thursday 7 Feb |
Clarisse Godard Desmarest (University of Picardie Jules Verne) |
‘Memory and monumental landscape: The column to Henry Dundas (1742-1811) in the New Town, Edinburgh’ |
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Thursday 14 Feb |
Peter Marshall (University of Warwick) |
‘Clerical culture in Early Modern Orkney’ |
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| Monday 18 Feb | Sir John Elliott (University of Oxford) | ‘Scots and Catalans’ | 6.00pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
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Thursday 28 Feb |
Ashley Foster (University of Notre Dame) |
‘“Assent to this System”: The interplay of the eternal supernatural and Eighteenth-Century natural within the Reformed Scottish self’ |
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Thursday 7 Mar |
Bob Morris (University of Edinburgh) |
‘The saving of John Knox House, 1846-1851: A signature for Scotland?’ |
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Thursday 14 Mar |
Thomas Stewart (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Coping with failure: Factionalism and the Scottish National Party 1979-1983’ |
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Thursday 21 Mar |
Alice Blackwell (National Museums Scotland ) |
‘The (missed) potential of Medieval stray finds in Scotland: A call to arms’ |
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| Thursday 28 Mar |
Clare Loughlin (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Anti-Catholicism and the problem of ‘popery’ in Scotland, c. 1690-c. 1745’ |
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| Thursday 4 Apr | Ciaran Jones (University of Edinburgh) | ‘Conversion and religious identity in 17th century Scotland: The murderess and the witch’ |
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Further information
Please contact the organiser, Dr Alasdair Raffe, for further information.
Dr Alasdair Raffe
Chancellor's Fellow 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