All seminars are on Thursdays at 6pm in Room G.13 William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place. Semester 2, Spring 2014DateTitleSpeaker 16 January 2014Understandings of Scotland and Scottishness in Peace and Environmental Activists' Oral HistoriesImogen Michel, University of Edinburgh 23 January 2014The Demise of the 'Bonny Fechter': Popular Politics in interwar ScotlandMalcolm Petrie, University of St Andrews 30 January 2014Zealots, Professors, Atheists and Hollow Hearts: Scottish Protestantism, 1560-1600 AnatomizedProfessor Michael Lynch, University of Edinburgh 6 February 2014The politics of local and national clientage networks in early seventeenth-century ScotlandAdrienne Miller, University of Edinburgh 13 February 2014‘After the Bruces’: the Stewart crown, Ireland and the politics of the wider Gaelic world, c.1390-1495Simon Peter Egan, University College Cork(A JOHN BANNERMAN SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND)20 February 2014No seminar Innovative Learning Week27 February 2014Moderatism and Enlightenment in the eighteenth centuryDr Thomas Ahnert, University of Edinburgh 6 March 2014'Cherchez la femme': seeking women's voices in the long nineteenth centuryDr Esther Breitenbach, University of Edinburgh(JOINT SEMINAR WITH THE GENDER HISTORY SEMINAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)13 March 2014Roman Catholic seminarians and belonging in the nineteenth century: the Scots College Paris 1793-1878Iida Saarinen, University of Edinburgh 20 March 2014The origins of the Scottish plantations in Ulster: a(nother) re-interpretationDr Alison Cathcart, University of Strathclyde 27 March 2014Hebridean Croft Schemes of the 1920s and 30s - What did they achieve?Dr Bob Chambers(A JOHN BANNERMAN SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND)3 April 2014'For the Common Profit': The Scottish Political Community in the Later Fifteenth CenturyClaire Hawes, University of St Andrews Semester 1, Autumn 2013DateTitleSpeaker 26 September 2013Accounting for the Common Good: change and continuity within Edinburgh's municipal expenditure in the age of reform c.1820-56Malcolm Noble, University of Edinburgh 3 October 2013Scottish Bounty Whalers, Inuits & the Northwest PassageDr Eric Graham, University of Edinburgh*10 October 2013Homicide in 18th Century Scotland – Numbers and TheoriesDr Bill Knox, University of St Andrews 17 October 2013Spa Waters and Spies: Mary Queen of Scots Visits Buxton, 1572-1578Cathy Guiader, University of Edinburgh 24 October 2013Lady lairds and lineage: never-married gentlewomen and family inheritance in early 19th-century ScotlandDr Alison Duncan 31 October 2013The Scottish Diaspora and the development of ‘otherised’ military labour in the British Empire, c.1740-c.1840Dr Matthew Dziennik, University of Edinburgh*7 November 2013A Highlander abroad: British and Irish expatriate networks east of the Rhine as recorded in the Triennial Travels of James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709)Dr David Worthington, University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History*14 November 2013'To mak a man sa gud': The negotiation of chivalric virtues in 'The Bruce' and 'The Wallace'Callum Watson, University of Edinburgh 21 November 2013‘Our Worthy Countrymen’?: Highland Development and the West Indies, 1750-1850Dr Karly Kehoe, Glasgow Caledonian University*28 November 2013The Latin Renaissance in Reformation Scotland: initial findings from research on the 'Bridging the Continental Divide' projectDr Steven Reid, University of Glasgow * In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora StudiesScottish Centre for Diaspora Studies websiteScottish History Facebook page This article was published on 2024-08-01
