Scottish History research seminars

The Scottish History research seminars provide an opportunity for discussion of current research developments on a range of themes relating to Scottish history across a broad chronological period, from early medieval to modern. Seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.

Time and location

All seminars take place on Thursdays, 5:15pm, 2.12, Appleton Tower (unless otherwise stated).

Event schedule

Semester 2 2025/26

DateSpeakerTopicNotes
Tue 6 Oct

Emanuela Patti, Lucy Byatt, Robin Baillie, Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)

 

Book Launch and discussion of 'David Rizzio at the Scottish Court'

Venue TBC

Co-badged with The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS). 

Thu 15 OctAshley Brown (University of Glasgow)‘The intimate and emotional lives of post-Reformation academics’  5:30pm start
Thu 22 OctIain Robertson (University of the Highlands and Islands) and Carl Griffin (University of Sussex)'The afterlives of protest: Eoligarry, Barra, March 1917' 
Thu 5 NovDr Emily Johnston and Dr Lizzie Swarbrick (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)‘Connecting Past and Present: Scotland's Church Heritage, Community and Social Value through Research in Action on Church Heritage’   
Thu 12 NovFennell Forum'Panel discussion on Scottish Historiography'   (Venue TBC)
Thu 19 NovProfessor Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow) 'Challenges in writing a history of Gaelic Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries' 
Thu 26 NovDr Sarah Leith (University of St Andrews)‘Whatever happened to Agnes Mure Mackenzie? The Long Renaissance and Scottish Nationalism’  

 

Semester 1 2025/26

Wed 24 SepBook Launch and Discussion – Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe (eds.)‘The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c.1560-1707: Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare’, featuring contributions by Dr Amy Blakeway (St Andrews) and Professor Laura Stewart (York) 5.30pm
Thu 2 OctColin MacIlwain (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Governance of the Scottish New Towns, 1947-96’  
Thu 9 OctTabea Hochstrasser (Umeå University, Sweden)‘Murder in the Lowlands: Popular Ideas from the Eighteenth Century’ 
Thu 16 OctDr Juliette Desportes (UHI) ‘Land Reform ‘from below’? Highland Tenants and the Emergence of the 18th Century Estate Landscape’  
Thu 23 OctProfessor Alex Woolf (University of St Andrews) ‘From Irish Province to English Fief: The Making of the Scottish Kingdom’  
Thu 30 OctDr John McCallum (University of Edinburgh) ‘Fury, Frenzy, and Blind Zeal: Representations of Emotion in Scottish Reformation Polemic’  
Thu 6 Thu Dr Nicole Cumming ‘Animals, the Environment and the ‘Protestant’ Worldview in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, c.1600-1660’  
Thu 13 Thu Dr Stephen Rainbird (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Church of Scotland and the Spanish Civil War’  
Thu 20 Thu  Prof Andrew Simpson (University of Aberdeen) ‘The Earliest Surviving Version of the ‘Leges et Consuetudines Quatuor Burgorum’: Fresh Perspectives’  

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

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