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Scottish History
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Research projects

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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