Scottish History
Scottish History Research Seminars

22 September 2011

Dr Rebecca Madgin, University of Leicester, and Professor Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh

Inspiring Capital: Deconstructing Myths and Reconstructing Urban Environments, 1860-2000

29 September 2011

Dr Alex Murdoch, University of Edinburgh

Hector McAllister in Argyll, North Carolina and Arran 1739-1792

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

 6 October 2011

Aisling MacQuarrie University of Aberdeen

Adventure and Enterprise: The North West Company, the Fur Trade and the Age of the Provinces, 1775-1820

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

13 October 2011

Christopher Langley, University of Aberdeen

Preaching to the times: Sermons, politics and audience in mid-seventeenth century Scotland

20 October 2011

Dr Aaron Allen, University of Edinburgh

Conquering the Suburbs: Politics and Work in Early Modern Edinburgh

27 October 2011

Trent Orme, University of Edinburgh

Toasting Fox: Scottish Fox Dinners in Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Tay-Area, 1801-1821

3 November 2011

Dr Sally Tuckett, University of Edinburgh

Highland and Lowland Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Facts and Fiction

10 November 2011

Cathy Guiader, University of Edinburgh

The suggested marriage between Mary Stuart and Don John of Austria. 1570-1578

17 November 2011

Hisashi Kuboyama, University of Edinburgh

Loyalism and radicalism of Glasgow tradesmen in the age of American Revolution

Harriet Cornell, University of Edinburgh

Family, Patriarchy and Status in the Early Modern Parish: 

Dr Lawrence Dritsas and Dr Joan Haig, University of Edinburgh

An Archive of Identity: publishing narratives of Scots exploration in Southern Rhodesia

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

23 September 2010

Dr Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh

Flying witches in Scotland

30 September 2010

Professor Daniel Szechi, University of Manchester

Scottish Jacobitism in International Context

 7 October 2010

Dr David Dobson, University of Edinburgh

Scottish Trade with the Colonial Carolinas

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

14 October 2010

Dr Alex Murdoch, University of Edinburgh

The Argyll Colony in North Carolina in the eighteenth century

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

21 October 2010

Tim Siddons, University of Edinburgh

Why did women conceal their pregnancies and/or murder their new-borns in Scotland between 1812 and 1930?

28 October 2010

Professor Michael Anderson, University of Edinburgh

Counting Scotland’s population in the 18th century: guesses, rough estimates and fudges (and Webster did it too)

4 November 2010

Dr Sharon Adams, University of Edinburgh

In Search of the Scottish Republic, 1637-1651

11 November 2010

Dr John Finlay, University of Glasgow

Assessing Edinburgh: lawyers and Edinburgh town council in the 18th century

18 November 2010

Kyle Thompson, University of Edinburgh

Politics and Traditions in Edinburgh, 1885

25 November 2010

David Hesse, University of Edinburgh

Re-enacting Scottish History in mainland Europe, 1945-2010

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Dr Adam Budd, University of Edinburgh

Philosophical History and the Demands of a Professorial Career: the Fragile Career of William Cullen

13 January 2011

Dr James Fraser, University of Edinburgh

The Fool Who Feared God: the Life of Columba and the second abbot of Iona

John Bannerman seminar in the History of Gaelic Scotland

20 January 2011

Brad Bow, University of Edinburgh

In Defence of the Scottish Enlightenment: Dugald Stewart’s role in the 1805 John Leslie affair

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

 27 January 2011

Matthew Dziennik, University of Edinburgh

Cultural symbols, Highland dress, and modernity in North Britain,  

c.1746-1822

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

3 February 2011

Professor William Gillies, University of Edinburgh

The Books of Clanranald: some questions for historians

John Bannerman seminar in the History of Gaelic Scotland

10 February 2011

Dr Trevor Griffiths, University of Edinburgh

Never on a Sunday? Scotland, Cinema and the Sabbath, 1896-1950

17 February 2011

Professor Robert Anderson, University of Edinburgh

Burgh Schools and Academies in Scotland 1780-1880: An Architectural Legacy

24 February 2011

Dr Neil MacGillivray, University of Edinburgh

Dr John Mackenzie (1803-1886) and emigration from the Scottish Highlands: a lone voice

In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

3 March 2011

Dr Godfrey Evans, National Museums of Scotland

Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852)

17 March 2011

Dr Martin Macgregor, University of Glasgow

Breaking the Mould? Writing the History of Gaelic Scotland

John Bannerman lecture in the History of Gaelic Scotland 2011

Dr Jonathan Gledhill, Manchester Metropolitan University

A Chronicle in Context: Gesta Annalia II and the Rebellion of 1363

Professor Gordon Stewart, Visiting Leverhulme Trust Professor, University of Dundee

The Scottish Enlightenment and British imperialism: a case study of the 1774 Tibet mission

Sponsorship by the Leverhulme Trust, the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Dr Bob Harris, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Urban improvement in Scottish towns, c.1740-1820

24 September

Dr Alex Murdoch, University of Edinburgh

The 'Scottish Invention of the USA ' Revisited

8 October 2009

Dr Jonathan Cox, University of Edinburgh

Chivalry and Lordship in Northeastern Scotland in the Late Middle Ages

Sonia Baker, University of Edinburgh

Leaving Nothing to Chance: Scots' Bequests to their mixed-race families in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Grenada

22 October

Professor Thomas Owen Clancy, University of Glasgow

Literature and Culture in the Reign of William the Lion

Carolyn Anderson, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

Constructing the Military Landscape: the Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland, 1689-1815

5 November

Professor Bob Morris, University of Edinburgh

Imagining Edinburgh and Walking the Canongate

12 November

Dr Catriona Macdonald, Glasgow Caledonian University

Student Politics in Modern Scotland

Dr Laura Stewart, Birkbeck College , University of London

Authority, Agency and the Scottish Church in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

Rev. Dr Iain Whyte, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

'No Union with Slaveholders': The Free Church of Scotland in hot water, 1845-47

David McClay, John Murray Archive curator, National Library of Scotland

The John Murray Archive

14 January 2010

Dr Steve Boardman, University of Edinburgh

The Posthumous Life of the Wolf of Badenoch

Jane Ridder-Patrick, University of Edinburgh

Scottish Almanacs and Prognostications

28 January 2010

Dr David Caldwell, National Museums of Scotland

Tom Turpie, University of Edinburgh

Scotland's Super Saints: the cults of SS Ninian and Duthac in late medieval Scotland, c.1300-1560

11 February 2010

Karen Baston, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

An Advocate's Library: Charles Areskine of Alva (1680-1763) and His Books

Professor Jane Dawson, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Unity and Uniformity in the Scottish Reformation

25 February 2010

Dr Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen

Voices from the Diaspora: oral history and emigration

4 March 2010

Dr Adam Fox, University of Edinburgh

Scottish Broadsides c1680-c1750

Dr Sheila Kidd, University of Glasgow

Turtles and Dictionaries: Cultural Exchanges Between Gaels in the West Indies and Scotland

Hisashi Kuboyama, University of Edinburgh

Popular disturbances in the West of Scotland, 1707-1783

Dr Brian Bonnyman, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen

Dr Alan MacDonald (University of Dundee)

Conventions of the Estates, Conventions of the Nobility, Conventions and the Union of 1603

David Dobson (University of Edinburgh)

Scotland and the Americas before 1707

14th October 2008

Dr Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds)

How to be a successful Cistercian monastery - some lessons from Northern Europe (12th-14th centuries)

Dr Amanda Beam (University of Glasgow)

"At the apex of chivalry": Sir Ingram de Umfraville and the Anglo-Scottish wars

Valerie Wallace (University of Glasgow)

Redefining Radicalism: the Voluntary Controversy and Scottish Popular Politics in the 1830s

Amy Blakeway (University of Cambridge)

James Hamilton, earl of Arran: the last Governor of Scotland

Dr Anne Marie Tindley (Glasgow Caledonian University)

'Actual pinching and suffering': Estate responses to poverty in Sutherland, 1850-1870

Linda Andersson Burnett (University of Edinburgh)

In Search of the Northern Noble Savage: The Travels of Edward Daniel Clarke in Scotland and Scandinavia 1797-1799

Dr Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh)

Nationalists, Heroes, Martyrs and Traitors? The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War', 1820-Present

Dr Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)
'Educator, poet, reformer: a reassessment of Andrew Melville (1545-1622)'

Alima Bucciantini (University of Edinburgh)
'Iconic Identities: The Presentation of the Past in the National Museum of Scotland'

29th January 2009

Dr Andrew Blaikie (University of Aberdeen)
'Scotland, Modernity and the Places of Memory'

Dr Karly Kehoe (University of Guelph)

'Associational Culture, Gender and Catholicism in nineteenth-century Scotland'

Katherine Nicolai (University of Edinburgh)
'Adam Ferguson, a 'Modern Roman?' Contemporary perceptions of Adam Ferguson'

John Cox (University of Edinburgh)
'The Career of David Lindsay 1st earl of Crawford: Chivalry, Piracy, Politics and Lordship in Scotland, 1380-1407'

Dr Katharine Glover (University of Edinburgh)
'Provincial Politeness and the Rural Resort: The Meanings of Moffat Spa in the Eighteenth Century'

Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)
'"The Exercise of Power": Late Medieval Ireland through Scottish Spectacles'

Dr Alasdair Raffe (Durham University)
'"The intrinsic right of the Kirk": Presbyterian politics after the revolution of 1688'

Elizabeth Ewan (University of Guelph)
'"Bonnie Fechters": Gender and Assault in Sixteenth-century Scotland'

Birger Løvlie (University College)
'Norwegians studying education in nineteenth-century Scotland'

24th January 2008

Brian Dempsey (Dundee)
'How to Get Marriage Law Changed: Who worried, who spoke, who was heard on the abolition of 'Gretna Green' marriages in 1930s Scotland?'

Anna Groundwater (University of Edinburgh)

'What happened to Kinmont Willie? James's volte-face in the Borders in 1597'

Isla Woodman (University of St Andrews)
'Politics and Ideology at the Early Scottish Universities'

Janet MacDonald (University of Glasgow)
'The fair land of the monks - a walk through Iona's territories'

Derek Patrick (University of Dundee)
'The squadrone volante at Sheriffmuir: Pro-union politicians and the 1715 Jacobite rising'

Tony Goodman (University of Edinburgh)
'Late medieval Scottish border society: the evidence of the Justiviary records'

Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki)

'The Mental Mapping of the North'

David Ditchburn (Trinity College, Dublin)

'Patterns of Sanctity and Maritime Communities in the Later Middle Ages'

Laurence Gouriévidis (Université Blaise Pascal)

'Tense Past: The Highland Clearances in musuems'

Professor Tom Devine (University of Edinburgh

'Contrasting Diasporas: Protestant Scots & Irish Catholics in the USA, 1850-1950'

Dr Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)

'Crown finance, 'gude reule' and regional rebellion in the reign of James IV'

5th October 2006

Professor Stewart Brown (University of Edinburgh)

'William Robertson, the Scottish Enlightenment and India'

Dr Michael Rosie (University of Edinburgh)

'Popery and Poverty: Protestant Action in 1930s Edinburgh'

Professor David McCrone (University of Edinburgh)

'Understanding Scottish Identity'

Dr Laura Stewart (BIrkbeck College)

'War, taxes and the state: Scotland, 1639-51'

Professor Rab Houston (University of St Andrews)

'Punishing the dead? Escheat for suicide in early modern Scotland.'

Dr James Fraser (University of Edinburgh)

'"The Winning of the West", Pictish-style'

Mr Jackson Armstrong (University of Cambridge)

'"The fyre of ire kyndild" Feud in the Scottish Marches, c. 1425-1450'

Dr Karen Cullen (UHI)

'The Famine of the 1690s''

Professor Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh)

'Ceremony in context: the Edinburgh University Tercentenary, 1884'

Dr Danielle Westerhof (CMS, York)

'Robert the Bruce's "crusading heart" in a European context: an exercise in image-building or an act of penitence?'

Finlay McKichan

'Lord Seaforth and Highland estate management in the First Phase of Cearance (1783-1815)'

Ms Jessica Nelson (King's College, UoL)

'in the shadow of St Margaret? Queens and queenship in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries'

1st February 2007

Dr Aaron Allen (University of Edinburgh)

'Occupational Mapping of 1635 Edinburgh: An Introduction.'

Professor David McCrone (University of Edinburgh)

'Understanding Scottish Identity'

The Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland Project

Dr Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh)

'The "Unknown Prime Minister" and the "True Blue Clyde": Andrew Bonar Law and Scottish Unionism'

Dr Liv Willumsen (Tromsø University College)

'Witches in Scotland and Northern Norway'

Professor John Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)

'The Scots in South Africa. Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race.'

Dr Martin MacGregor (University of Glasgow)

'The "Flodden Poem" int he Book of the Dean of Lismore'

Professor Lindsay Paterson (University of Edinburgh)

'The curriculum of Scottish secondary schools in the first four decades of the twentieth century.'

Dr Neville Kirk (University of Manchester)

'Custom and Conflict: the Ballachulish Quarries Disputes, 1902-5'

Dr Bill Knox (University of St Andrews)

'Women and Empire: Mary Slessor, The White Queen of Okoyong.'

14th October 2004

Dr Andrew Newby (University of Edinburgh)

'"There is a glorious resurrection in view for the Highlands" Angus Sutherland and the Highland Land Agitation 1878-1894.'

Mr Nicholas Evans (University of Aberdeen)

'Scottish Emigration 1919-1939'

Dr Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)

'The Welsh identity of the diocese of Glasgow in the second half of the twelfth century'

Dr Alan MacDonald (University of Dundee)

'Great Britain's Salmon - how James VI forgot the taste of Scotland'

Dr Allen Simpson

''"Size does matter": Scotland's early weights and measures'

Dr Sharon Adams (University of Edinburgh)

'Land and Wealth in seventeenth-century Wigtownshire'

Mr Bill Russell

'Duns Scotus and the Paris Conversations: The origins of Scottish consent theory?'

Dr John Macaskill (University of Edinburgh)

'The Crown, private proprietors and the Scottish kelp shores 1861-1892.'

Dr Emilia Jamroziak (University of Edinburgh)

'Strategies of survival and success on the borders: Cistercian abbeys in Scotland and Pomerania'

Prof Allan Macinnes (University of Aberdeen)

'Hold the Prozac: Scottish commercial prospects on the eve of Union'

Dr Lizanne Henderson (University of Glasgow)

'Covens after the Coventanters: The Survival of Witch Belief in South West Scotland'

3rd February 2005

Dr Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)

'"Thar nobill eldrys gret bounte." Politics, history and literature in early Stewart Scotland.'

Dr Jim Philips (University of Glasgow)

'February 1972: Longannet and the Industrial Politics of Devolution'

Ms Sally Crumplin (University of St Andrews)

'The Nexus of northern saints: cooperation or competition?'

Dr Douglas Lockhart (University of Keele)

'The changing role of lotted lands in Scottish planned villages'

Ms Katharine Glover (University of Edinburgh)

'"Good Sense and polite Manners": Educating the daughters of the mid-eighteenth-century Scottish elite.'

Dr Steve Murdoch (University of St Andrews)

'In Bed with a Swede: Scottish Entrepreneurial Networks in Scandinavia and the Baltic, 1660-1707'

Professor Margo Todd (University of Pennsylvania)

'Guild and Session: Urban Culture and Parochial Life in Sixteenth-Century Perth'

Dr David Goldie (University of Strathclyde)

'The British invention of Scottish culture: Scotland and the First World War.'

Dr Christopher Storrs (University of Dundee)

'Foreign penetration of Spain's empire 1660-1720'

Dr Ronnie Johnson (Glasgow Caledonian)

'Oral testimony: health and safety in Scottish coal mining in the 20th century'

21st October 2003

Dr Michael Brown (University of St Andrews)

'Royal government and regional lordship in the fourteenth century British Isles.'

Professor Chris Whatley (University of Dundee)

'"The most neglected State in Europe"? Scotland at the end of the Regnal Union'

Dr Jim Smyth (Stirling University)

'Friends in the city?: Lodging in Glasgow, c. 1861-1901.'

Dr Diana Newton (Teeside University)

'The impact of the accession of James VI and I on the north east of England'

Dr Clare Jackson (Cambridge University)

'Judicial Torture and the Status of Coerced Testimony in Restoration Scotland'

Mr Mark Jardine (University of Edinburgh)

'"The Great Deeps of Bothwell" - Radical Presbyterian divisions and the battle of Bothwell Brig, 1679.'

Ms Annie Tindley (University of Edinburgh)

'"The Iron Duke": Land reclamation and Public Relations in Sutherland, 1868-1882'

Dr John McGavin (University of Southampton)

'Theatricality, Textuality, and Dissent in Medieval and Early-modern Scotland'

Dr Athol Murray

'The Post-Union Court of Exchequer'

29th January 2004

Dr Alan Borthwick (NAS)

Post-Graduate Training Session.

Dr Eric Graham (University of Edinburgh)

'Privateering - "The main privat interest in a Publick War" (Lord Stair, 1681)'

Mr Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh)

'"We are the Nation": Scotland and the Creation of a National Movement for Parliamentary Reform, 1830-2'

Dr Andrew MacKillop (University of Aberdeen)

'The Impact of the Indian Empire n Scotland, 1700-1815'

Ms Kirsteen Foster (University of Edinburgh)

'Friends in High Places?: the 8th Duke of Argyll, Practicalities and Persona Relationships'

Dr David Brown (Strathclyde University)

'Lord Palmerston in Scotland'

Dr Douglas Watt (University of Edinburgh)

'Cash is King: Capital Management by the Company of Scotland 1696-1707'

Ms Kirsteen Foster (University of Edinburgh)

'Friends in High Places?: the 8th Duke of Argyll, Practicalities and Persona Relationships'

Dr Theo VanHeijnsbergen (Glasgow University)

'The search for stability in Sixteenth-century Scotland: the cultural evidence.'

22nd April 2004

Mr Alex Woolf (University of St Andrews)

'The World Turned upside down: Dun Nechtan, Fortriu and the Picts in Space'

Mr James Coleman (University of Glasgow)

'The Covenanters Who Came In From the Cold: Commemoration of Covenanting Martyrdom in 19th Century Scotland.'

Dr David Onnenkink (IASH, Edinburgh)

'"The whole Superintendency of the Kingdom": The Earl of Portland and Scotland (1689-1699)'

Mr Matthew Hammond (Univesity of Glasgow)

'The Scottish aristocracy and the adoption of charters ca. 1150-1250'

Dr Alison Cathcart (University of St Andrews)

'"The ties that bind": the importance of kinship in the centra' and eastern Highlands during the 15th and 16th centuries.'

Dr Eila Williamson (University of Southampton)

'Records of Early Drama in South-East Scotland'

31st October 2002

Dr Nick Philipson (University of Edinburgh)

'Adam Smith's formative years'

Dr Richard Finlay (University of Strathclyde)

'Politics and Class Conflict in Inter-War Scotland'

Dr Greta-Mary Hair (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Betty I Knott (university of Glasgow)

'The Office of St Kentigern (or Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow as found in the Sprouston Breviary, MS Edinburgh, NLS Adv. 18.2. 13B.'

Dr Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh)

'The Seven Men of Knoidart and the Scottish Highlands in the late 1940s.'

Dr Lauren Martin / Dr Joyce Millar (University of Edinburgh)

'A report from the witchcraft survey'

Forum on Saintly Kingship in Medieval Britain

Joanna Huntington (York)

'"...et rex et sanctus"? Edward the Confessor and David of Scotland'

Dr Katherine Lewis (Huddersfield) '"Tencresse his vertues, Edmund shall been his guyde": Henry VI and models of saintly knigship'

Dr Colin Kidd (University of Glasgow)

'Radicalism, Tradition and the Covenanting Margins of the Atlantic.'

James Fraser (University of Edinburgh)

'Looking beyond Iona: the case of the bishops of Kingarth'

30th January 2003

Dr David Brown (National Archives of Scotland)

'The "Ministry of all the Talents" and Scotland, 1806-1807.'

Dr Tristram Clarke (National Archives of Scotland)

'Picking the national team: collective biographies of Scots.'

Dr Iain MacIver (National Library of Scotland)

'Moderates and Wild Men: Politics, Religion and Party Affiliation in the Church of Scotland, 1800-1843'

Dr Christopher Storrs (University of Dundee)

'Models of Penetration of the Spanish Empire 1660-1714: Sweden, Scotland and England'

Dr John Robertson (University of Oxford)

'Enlightenmnet in Success and Failure: Political Economy in Scotland and Naples in the eighteenth century'

Dr David Ditchburn (University of Aberdeen)

'Anglo-Scottish relations in the later middle ages: the other side of the coin'

Professor Donald Meek (University of Edinburgh)

'Wanted - a Broader Outlook: Rev. T.M. Murchison and Highland Development since 1930'

Dr Sharon Adams (University of Edinburgh)

'Radical politics and popular protest, 1617-1651.'

29th April 2003

Professor Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews)

'The Miracles of St Margaret'

Ms Katie Stevenson (University of Edinburgh)

'Knighthood, Chivalry and the Crown in Fifteenth-Century Scotland'

Ms Helen Brown (University of Edinburgh)

'A premature overview of the Collegiate Kirk in Scotland'

Dr Ken Logue

'The Death of Capt Porteous: Who did it - and why is it important?'

Dr Iain Hutchison (University of Stirling)

'The Conservatives' Decline in Later 20th-Century Scotland: A Local Case-Study.'

Professor Gordon Kipling (UCLA)

'The Royal Entry and the Art of Political Performans? 1400-1600.'

Ms Katharine Glover

'Gender and Britishness: The Women of the Fletcher of Saltoun Family'

Mr mark Mulhern

'Mapping the Borders: A Consideration of the Parliamentary Politics of the Scottish Borders, 1868-1910'

Ms Anna Cordey

'Witch Hunts in the Presbytery of Dalkeith'

Ms Kristin Flood Strøm

'Scottish Nationalism and national identity in the 19th century'

Mr Andrew Robb

'19th century climate change in the north-east of Scotland'

Mr Ryan Rossitto

'Chambers Journal, 1830-50'

Dr Eric Graham (University of Dundee)

'Scots and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.'

Dr Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh)

'James VI and the Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597'

6th November 2001

Dr Elizabeth Ewan (University of Guelph)

'"Many Injurious Words": Defamation and Gender in Pre-Reformation Scotland'

Dr John Young (University of Strathclyde)

'New perspectives on anti-Catholicism in early-modern Scotland: the anatomy of anti-Catholic rioting in Edinburgh in 1686'

Mr Brian Bonnyman (University of Edinburgh)

'Adam Smith and the third Duke of Buccleuch'

Mr Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh)

'Scottish Radicalism and Reform, c.1825-c.1835'

Dr Martin MacGregor (University of Glasgow)

'Gaelic Barbarity and Scottish Identity in the Later Middle Ages'

Ms Esther Mijers (University of St Andrews)

'William Carstares and the Reform of Edinburgh University.'

Dr Andrew Newby (University of Aberdeen)

'"The Irishman who had to explain he was not a Scotsman." The life and career of Edward McHugh 1853-1915.'

24th January 2002

Dr Rune Hagen (University of Tromsø)

'John Cuningham: A district governor on the edge of civilisation, c1575-1651.'

Rev. Ianin Whyte (University of Edinburgh)

'"No economoy of words." Correspondance in a 1792 Glasgow newspaper over the abolition of the Slave Trade.'

Mr Douglas Barker (University of Edinburgh)

'The Pundlar Process: Its effects on early 19th century Orkney tenancy.'

Mr Neil McGillivray (University of Edinburgh)

'"Fever, Bills of Mortality and Myths," Edinburgh c.1840-1850.'

Dr Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)

'The medieval roots of national histories in Britain and Ireland'

Ms Christina Strauch (University of Edinburgh)

'The Franciscans and Education in Late Medieval Scotland'

Dr Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)

'"A Saintly sinner?" The 'martyrdom' of David, duke of Rothesay.'

Dr James Kennedy (University of Edinburgh)

'"For Gladstone and Scotland": the Young Scots Society, 1900-1914.'

Professor Geoffrey Barrow (University of Edinburgh)

'Scots in the Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral'

Ms Laura Stewart (University of Edinburgh)

'Stent Rolls for Beginners: The Impact of National Taxation on Edinburgh, c.1620-1650.'

2nd May 2002

Mr Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh)

'Importing the Popular Parts of the Constitution -Britishness and Scottish Reform 1823-1833.'

Helen Brown

'Piety and charter preambles in late medieval Scotland'

Mark Jardine

'Beautiful ideas, dangerous outcomes - Alexander Shields, a case study'

Sherrilynn Theiss

'Highland Clans in the seventeenth century.'

Kirsteen Foster

'Privilege and Politics: the parliamentary career of the 8th Duke of Argyll, 1847-1900

Anne-Marie Tindley

'Orkney and Shetland in the late nineteenth century: government policy, land reform and politics.'

Dr Richard Fawcett (Historic Scotland)

'Renewing past glories: revivalism in Scottish late medieval church architecture'

Dr Jenny Wormald (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

'A great diplomatic incident and a fatally missed opportunity: James VI and I and Gondomar'

Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh)

'Government and the People in Early Early Modern Scotland'

Alan Borthwick (Scottish Record Office)

'A Turbulent Life in Turbulent Times: A mid-15th century Angus Laird'

11th November 1998

Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow)

'A Shocking Case of Cruelty: A History of Child Abuse in Scotland, c.1880 to the Present'

David Allan (University of St Andrews)

'What's in a Name? Pedigree and Propaganda in 17th century Scotland'

Ian S Wood (Napier University)

'The Sash Across the Sea: The Orange Order in Scotland Two Hundred Years On'

Andrew Newby (University of Edinburgh)

'"Air A' Chuain": Emigration and Clearance from the Island of Barra, c. 1792-1856'

Margaret Bennett (Univesity of Glasgow)

'Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec during the Nineteenth Century'

4th February 1999

Michael Penman (University of St Andrews)

'Raddure and Succession: David II of Scotland, 1329-71'

Dr Alison Lumsden (Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels)

'Perceptions of the Highlands in the Waverley Novels'

Dr Elaine McFarland (Glasgow Caledonian University)

'John Ferguson 1836-1906: A Public Life'

Dr Andrew Mackillop (University of Aberdeen)

'The Contours of Colonisation: Scots and the East India Company, 1695-1800'

Dr Pat Dennison

'Disappearing Settlements'

Morrice McCrae

'The Highlands and Islands Medical Service: Forerunner of the National Health Service'

30th October 1997

Dr Alan MacDonald

'Scotland's Parliament, Scotland's Past'

Joyce Millar

'"Cantrips and Carlins": Magic and Medicine in 17th-century Stirling Presbytery Records'

Dr Athol Murray

'The Edinburgh Mint after the Recoinage 1709-1836'

Andrew Ritchie

'Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Gavin Dalzell, Thomas McCall, James Johnston and the 'invention' of the bicycle in Scotland: a controversial case study in historical sources and evidence'

Dr Liz Ewan

'A Monstrous Regiment? Looking at Women in Scottish Medieval and Early Modern History'

19th February 1998

Dr Graeme Morton

'The Wallace Cult in the 19th century: repackaging the story'

Jill Turnbull

'"The Business of Glasse." Glassmaking on the Forth, and beyond, in the seventeenth century'

Amy Juhala

'The evolution of Solomon: creating the court of James VI'

Dr Andrew Lang

'"Honest George" - the Political Career of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP'

14th November 1996

Jennifer Scarce

'The Scots and China'

Dr Roger Mason

'James VI, George Buchanan, and The True Law of Free Monarchies'

John Simmons

'The roasting of the Commendator of Crossraguel'

Mike Davidson

'MacBeth, the Cenél Loairn? and the problem of the North'

13th February 1997

Eila Williamson

'Petitioning Pope Sixtus IV - the Scottish Experience'

Dr Diana Newton

'Sir Francis Hastings and the religious education of James VI and I'

Dr Bob Akroyd

'The Rev. James Begg (1808-83): Scottish Nationalist and Philanthropist'

Peter Symms

'Crime without punishment - the control of social deviance in a 16th century burgh'

Ewen Cameron

'The political career of Charles Fraser Mackintosh'

22nd May 1997

John Bannerman

'Early Scottish settlement in North Britain (Part 2)'