History Talks Live
Forthcoming talks content
Past talks and recordings content
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!
Schedule for 2022-23
- Thursday 22 September 2022 at 17.30, with Prof. David Worthington presenting 'The Multilingual Minister: languages in the life-writing of Scottish Highland scholar and traveller, Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709)'.
- Thursday 13 October 2022 at 17.30, with Dr Iain Robertson and Prof. Marjory Harper presenting 'The Iolaire Impact'.
- Thursday 3 November 2022 at 17.30, with Dr Georgia Vullinghs presenting 'Loyal Exchange: the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile, c.1716-1760'.
Past talks and recordings
Past talks and recordings
All our talks are recorded and available to view online a few days after the event:
- 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)