Dr Linsey Hunter

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Biography

Lecturer in history

Linsey Hunter

Dr Linsey Hunter joined the Centre for History and is a Lecturer in History. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with a PhD in medieval legal history. Since then, she has developed extensive experience of teaching via videoconference and blended learning at UHI as a teaching assistant, then three periods of maternity leave in early modern history before achieving a permanent post.

She receives multiple nominations and commendations each year in the annual HISA student-nominated competition for her teaching, marking and support of students and won the award for Best Essay Feedback in 2023. She is a member of a number of academic and professional societies, including Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2025).

Teaching content

Teaching

Teaching

Current

  • L7 The Middle Age (module leader)
  • L8 A Curious Age (module leader)
  • L9 Conquerors, Crusaders and Churchmen: The World of the Normans, c.911-c.1204 (module leader)
  • L9 A Clash of Civilisations?: The Crusades, c.1096-c.1198 (module leader)
  • L10 Deviants, Rebels, Outcasts and Villains: History from the Margins (module leader)

She also teaches on the L11 modules ‘Palaeography and Languages' and ‘Castles in Context’. 

Previous Teaching Experience

L7

  • Atlantic World c.1492-c.1800: The Old World Meets the New (module leader)
  • Renaissances, Reformations and Revolts: Europe c.1100-c.1789
  • Scottish History: 1066-1603
  • Scottish History 1603-20th Century (module leader)
  • Themes in Modern British Political History/People, Protest and Power
  • What is History? (co-creator)

L8

  • A Clash of Civilisations?: Europe and the Muslim World, c.1100-c.1700
  • Historians and History (module leader)
  • Noble, Rebel, King: Robert the Bruce and Medieval Scotland
  • Scotland, the North Sea and the Baltic in the Medieval and Early Modern Era (module leader)
  • Travelling Cultures: Global Diasporas

L9

  • Crown-Magnate Relations in Medieval Northern Scotland: c.1290-c.1500
  • Cultural Centres and Economic Powerhouses: Amsterdam, Hamburg and London during the Early Modern Period (module leader)
  • Public History
  • Sovereignty of the Sea? Pirates, Politicians and the Evolution of Territorial Waters (module leader)

L10

  • A Society at War? Scotland, 1296-1403
  • Death and Destruction: The Social Impact of the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 (module leader)
  • A Norman Diaspora? Conquest, Colonisation and Assimilation (module leader)
  • Undergraduate Dissertation (module leader)

L11