Scottish History seminars

Thursday 26 Sept

Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh)

‘Political parties in seventeenth-century Scotland’

Thursday 3 Oct

'Scotch on the rocks: Literary identity and anxiety in the Scottish Enlightenment’

Kathrin Zickermann (Highlands and Islands)

‘Alexander Erskein (1598-1656): Swedish resident, war councillor and peace negotiator’

Thursday 17 Oct

Lucy Brown (Strathclyde)

‘Negotiating the welfare state: Community art in Scotland 1962-1990’

‘So much more than a Prime Minister: Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)’

In association with ‘The First Eight’ project of the ANU Australian Studies Institute

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’

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’

Robbie Johnston (Edinburgh)

‘Rediscovering the union: Margaret Thatcher, the Conservatives and Scotland, 1974-c. 1990’