Pre-2011 news

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology would like to say a big thank you to all the final year undergraduates who took part in this year’s National Student Survey.

Andrew Phemister, a first year PhD student in History, has won a highly sought-after bursary from the British Association for Irish Studies.

The University of Edinburgh intends to appoint up to 100 Chancellor’s Fellows across the University’s 22 schools as an investment in the future of teaching and research.

PhD Classics student James Livingston has been awarded an invaluable opportunity.

An online exhibition of colourful fabrics from the Scottish ‘Turkey red’ textile industry has gone live.

Dr Robert Crowcroft, Lecturer in Contemporary History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, has been invited to participate in a new history initiative launched by the Prime Minister's Office.

The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies will host Dr Richard McMahon as a Guggenheim fellow.

Dr Adam Budd has been awarded a £200,000 AHRC Early-Career Research Grant, which he will take up at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2013-2015.

Dr Robert Crowcroft, Lecturer in Contemporary History in the School, has recently been awarded a Knowledge Exchange grant to support his engagement with policy-makers and opinion-formers.

Congratulations to Dr. Eoin McLaughlin, research assistant on Professor Greasley's Leverhulme Trust-funded study of sustainable development indicators, who has been awarded joint-third prize in the Savings Banks Academic Awards, an international competition organised by the World Savings Banks Institute. The award is for Eoin's work on the role of Trustee Savings Banks and the Post Office Savings Bank in the Irish economy in the 1800s. Eoin will officially receive the award in Brussels in October 2012.

Dr Anna Groundwater has been awarded a Research Workshop grant of £8,900 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a research workshop and follow-on knowledge exchange event, 'Mapping the Nation: representations of Scotland,1200-1707'.

Artisans and the craft economy in Scotland c.1780-1914.

Dr Niall Whelehan, currently an Early Career Fellow in History affiliated with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, was recently awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Research Agency to support a new project on ‘Transnational protest: social movements and political mobilisation across Ireland and the Irish diaspora, 1879-1903’.

Eberhard Sauer, the University’s Professor of Roman Archaeology, has been awarded a very generous ERC Advanced Grant.

A unique centre that collates information on the history of Scotland’s contribution to World War 1 was officially launched at Edinburgh Central Library on Wednesday 10th of October.

Jann Brown, a 1978 History graduate, is featured in a University film about alumni who support student bursaries.

A short film about Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s lectures and workshops on Ancient Persia is being showcased by the University as an example of good practice in public engagement.

A 20-year quest to uncover one of the ancient world’s engineering marvels is the focus of an exhibition which opened on Friday, 9 November.

A ground-breaking digital atlas, which provides historical mapping of the social, cultural, political, religious, military, environmental, architectural and economic life of a city, is being developed in a project led by Richard Rodger, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh.

‘Immigrant’ is not a label people like or want, says Catriona Taylor, Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, after working with Swietlica, a Polish-Scottish organisation in Edinburgh.

Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, has appeared on popular Iranian television channel, Manoto TV, talking about his new book, King and Court in Ancient Persia.

The History, Classics and Archaeology Graduate School is offering training grants to postgraduate students who wish to improve their language skills.

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Artist Catriona Taylor and SCDS Associate Director Dr Alex Murdoch have been awarded Leverhulme Trust funding for a one-year residency by the artist based in History, Classics & Archaeology.

From September 2012, Prof Ian Ralston and his co-PI, Professor Gary Lock of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford, are leading a four year study of a major later prehistoric site category, with generous funding (£950,000) from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The Leverhulme Research Trust have awarded Prof Jim Crow a major research grant to investigate the Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople.

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The publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that Dr Louise Jackson (Reader in History) and Dr Gordon Johnston (Honorary Fellow) will be taking on the editorship of Social History in 2015, when the journal will be based in Edinburgh.

The School has opened a new Undergraduate Common Room, with capacity for up to 60 people.

The School of History, Classics & Archaeology has received funding from the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust to undertake a fascinating oral history initiative.

PhD Archaeology student Owain Mason, PhD Classics student Amy Bratton and PhD History student Malcolm Craig have won through to the College round of the world-renowned 3-minute thesis competition (3MT®).

The School wishes to congratulate Owen Dudley-Edwards, an honorary fellow with us, on his honorary fellowship with the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. This was granted to him for his contribution to the Scottish literary tradition.

What does protecting our environmental and cultural heritage have in common with spying on terrorists, or seeking to improve airline safety?

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology has awarded eight scholarships worth £7,000 each to third-year undergraduates across its subject areas.

The Scottish Government has awarded £37,000 to the SCDS to help support a two-day conference during the next Year of Homecoming in July 2014 with the title 'The Global Migrations of the Scottish People: Issues, Debates and Controversies'.

Sir William Fraser Chair Appointment

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology is making up to an additional £1,000 available for its student societies, in order to encourage final year undergraduates to participate in the National Student Survey (NSS).

Britain lacks clarity in its approach to world politics because there is no united vision between Government departments, according to research led by Contemporary History lecturer, Dr Robert Crowcroft.

We are pleased to announce that as of 1st September the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars will become the Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict (CSMC).

Professor Tom Bartlett, Professor of Irish History, University of Aberdeen, will give the annual Arbuthnott lecture in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 5pm, Friday 31 May.

The School is very proud to congratulate four outstanding students on their success in the global Undergraduate Awards competition.

From Monday 3 June, three current students will gain valuable, paid work experience within the School as summer interns.

We are delighted to congratulate not one but 12 of our students, undergraduate and postgraduate, on achieving Edinburgh Awards this year.

Yvonne McEwen, Honorary Fellow and Director of 'Edinburgh's/Scotland's War' World War 1 Public Engagement Project, has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Group of the Imperial War Museum.

The ‘Colouring the Nation’ project team recently held an exhibition in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, with sponsorship from Jackie Baillie MSP for Dumbarton.