Scottish History seminars

The Scottish History research seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.

Time and location

All seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15-6:30pm in LG.10, 40 George Square unless stated otherwise below.

All are welcome to attend, and it is not necessary to book a place in advance.  Seminars will normally take place in hybrid format, with online joining instructions circulated via the Scottish History seminar mailing list.  If you are not on the mailing list and would like to receive this information, please contact one of the seminar convenors (emily.ward@ed.ac.uk or john.mccallum@ed.ac.uk).

Event schedule

Semester 2 2024/25

Thu 23 JanDr Thomas Tyson (IASH‘“Gipsy-Hunting” in Romantic Scotland: Negotiating gypsy and traveller stereotypes, c.1790–c.1840’
Thu 30 JanDr Charlotte Lauder (IASH“Popular Scottish magazines, 1870–1920: What’s Scottish history got to do with tt (them)?”
Thu 6 FebDr Anna Groundwater (NMS)‘Materialising James VI and I:  Three-dimensional perspectives’ 
Thu 13 FebDr Elise Watson (Edinburgh)

‘Viragos and unscrupulous ladies: Professional bookwomen’s networks in Early Modern Edinburgh and Beyond’

Co-sponsored with Histories of Gender & Sexuality Seminar

Thu 27 FebDr Tom Pye (UCL)‘The endurance of entail: Feudal law, political economy, and land reform in late 18th-Century Scotland’
Thu 6 MarProfessor Jim Tomlinson (Glasgow University)‘“What bloody shits those dundeans must be” (Lawrence of Arabia to Churchill, November 1922): Churchill’s defeat in Dundee, 1922’
Thu 13 Mar

John Bannerman Lecture

Dr Deborah Hayden (Maynooth University)

‘Medical practitioners in the Medieval Gaelic world: Myth and history’

LG.11, 40 George Square

Tue 18 Mar

Professor Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)

 

‘Outside Cnut’s imperium? Scotland and Sweden in the early 11th Century’

Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School

Thu 27 MarDr Claire McNulty (Trinity College Dublin)'Edinburgh's unruly women: Gender, discipline, and power, 1560-1660'
Wed 23 AprDr Krisztina Ilko (Queen’s College, University of Cambridge)‘Beyond the Lewis Chessmen: Chess and race in the global Middle Ages’

Semester 1 2024/25

Thu 26 SepDr Valerie Wright (University of Edinburgh)‘Feelings About Place and Belonging: Oral History, Reputation and the Built Environment in Cumbernauld’
Thu 3 OctDr Laura Mair (University of Aberdeen)‘“A Child of my Adoption”: Child Welfare, Parental Authority, and the Edinburgh Ragged School, c. 1847–1887’
Thu 10 OctDr Robbie Johnston (Queen’s University, Belfast)‘“In the Hands of Civilised Men”: Alec Douglas-Home and the End of Empire’
Thu 17 OctKatie Comper (University of Edinburgh)‘“This Troublesome Reeling Time”: Kirk Sessions, Discipline, and the “Godly Community” in Scotland, 1660–1712’
Thu 24 OctDr Martin MacGregor (University of Glasgow)‘Despotism or Democracy? Breadalbane Baron Courts in the Late Sixteenth Century’
Thu 31 OctDr Soile Ylivuori (University of Helsinki)‘Dangerous Tropicality, Precarious Whiteness, and William Robertson’s History of America (1777)’
Thu 7 November Dr Andrew Newby (University of Jyväskylä)‘“That’s Our Story!”: The Reception and Impact of The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland’. In Room G.14, William Robertson Wing  
Thu 14 NovProfessor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)‘The Saga of the Earls of Orkney and Family Traditions in the Viking Diaspora’ Co-badged with the Medieval History Research Seminar
Thu 21 NovProfessor Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)

‘Challenging the Scottish Reformation: The Strange Career of Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews, c. 1576–1592’

Please note that this seminar will take place in LG.11, 40 George Square

Tue 26 NovDr Taylor Aucoin (University of Edinburgh)‘Football in Medieval Scotland’, 5:15–6:30pm in Room G.16 with the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Thu 28 Nov‘University Reform in Early Modern and Modern Times’Roundtable with Dr Carlos Alves (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Dr Esther Mijers, Professor Ewen Cameron and Professor Lindsay Paterson (University of Edinburgh)

 

Further information

Please contact the organisers, Dr Emily Ward and Dr John McCallum, for further information.

Dr Emily Ward, Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History

Dr John McCallum, Lecturer in Early Modern Scottish History

Find out what else is on

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.

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