Information on research recently or currently
carried out by individual members of staff
is provided in their individual staff
pages. In addition, the following projects
and seminars have their own web pages.
The Research
Seminar Series is held weekly during
the semester, in which invited scholars
and Edinburgh postgraduates and staff give
papers about aspects of their current research.
The Centre for Scottish Urban
History works with Historic Scotland
to produce the Burgh Survey series of works
on Scotland’s historic towns.
The Survey
of Scottish Witchcraft is an online
database and research resource created by
an ESRC-funded project that ran between
2001 and 2003. It provides information on
all known Scottish witchcraft cases between
1563 and 1736.
The Survey
of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland
is a three-year AHRC-funded project that
will provide a searchable database/website
recording, mapping and analysing dedications
to saints in pre-Reformation Scotland.
The Research
Institute in the Culture, History and Ethnology
of Scotland (RICHES) co-ordinates and
promotes multi- and inter-disciplinary research
within the broad area of Scottish studies,
including not just Scottish history but
other disciplines, in particular literature
and ethnology.
Scottish History participates in the Medieval
and Early Renaissance Studies Programme,
which co-ordinates a number of seminars
and conferences and provides opportunities
for postgraduate study.
Scottish History also participates in research
in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
as a whole.
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