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Forthcoming Talks
Join us for live online talks and events throughout the academic year of 2022-23. Expert speakers offer their insights on a wide range of topics of interest to the historically-minded. You won’t need any special software and members of the public are very welcome to join us!
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Schedule for 2022-23
- Thursday 16 February, at 19.00, with Dr Lucy Dean presenting Connections and Memories: Domus Vallis Virtutis and the Burgh of Perth
- Thursday 23 March, at 19.00, with Dr Rohan Deb Roy presenting Decolonise Mosquitoes
Past talks and recordings
Past talks and recordings
All our talks are recorded and available to view online a few days after the event:
- 'An Adolescent in Service to a Knight’: Adolescence and Aspects of Belonging, c. 1050–1250 (Dr Emily Joan Ward)
- Loyal Exchange: the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile, c.1716-1760 (Dr Georgia Vullinghs)
- The Iolaire Impact (Dr Iain Robertson and Professor Marjory Harper)
- The Multilingual Minister: languages in the life-writing of Scottish Highland scholar and traveller, Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709 (Professor David Worthington)
- Tourism in the Highlands: Past, Present and Future (Roundtable event)
- 'By the Power of the Sword' - Orkney and the Carbisdale Campaign, 1649-1650 (Dr Andrew Lind)
- Writing Women into the Russian Revolution (Dr Katy Turton)
- North Sea Energy: an artist's perspective (Sue Jane Taylor)
- A Very Civilised Rebellion: Mantua and Canossa 1090-1115 (Dr Rob Houghton)
- Emigrant Families at Sea: Scottish migration to Canada, 1770s-1850s (Dr Elizabeth Ritchie)
- 'A nurse and a soldier' Men in the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War (Dr Emma Newlands)
- A Brewing Storm: Alewives in sixteenth-century Inverness (Professor Elizabeth Ewan)
- Mayflower 400: Legend and legacy (Jo Loosemore)
- 'Scrap-heap' stories: Remembering deindustrialization and its impacts in Scotland post-1970 (Professor Arthur McIvor)
- Whose history? Reflections on history and heritage (Professor Keir Reeves)
- Migration as Human Capital: The case of the Highlands and Islands & Company Empire in Asia, c.1720 - c.1820 (Dr Andrew MacKillop)
- History and folklore: the many afterlives of Finella, Lady of the Mearns (Dr Linsey Hunter)
- A War against Pirates? Suppressing piracy in Atlantic localities, 1716-26 (Dr David Wilson)
- James IV of Scotland: Crusader? (Dr Alastair MacDonald)
- The Place-names of Assynt (Gemma Smith)
- 'Bereft of all human help?': Scottish widows of the Thirty Years' War (Dr Kathrin Zickermann)
- Lord Loudoun and the transatlantic impact of military strategy and imperial policymaking, c.1745-1757 (Dr Nicola Martin)
- Ossianic History: James Macpherson (1736-1796), history writing, the Enlightenment and empire (Dr Jim MacPherson)
- Rainbows in the windows: collecting oral testimonies from parents with young families in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic (Dr Alison Chand)
- Sugar, Slave-owning and the Scottish Highlands before 1707 (Professor David Worthington) in association with The Edge.
- Spaces of Assertion: informal land occupations in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 (Dr Iain Robertson)
- Hunger, Protest, Riot: three months in north and north-east Scotland (Professor Jim Hunter)
- Raising Royal Scottish Babes: baptism rites, gossibs and godparents in late medieval and early modern Scotland (Dr Lucy Dean)
- Sutherland and the Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296-1357 (Dr Iain MacInnes)