Join the Centre for History UHI for a series of live online talks every month during 2021. 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!

The talks take place at 5.30pm during term time.

Forthcoming talks

Thursday 4 March, 5.30pm - 6.30pm:

James IV of Scotland: Crusader? (Dr Alastair MacDonald)

Thursday 25 March, 5.30pm - 6.30pm:

A War Against Pirates? Suppressing piracy in Atlantic localities, 1716-1726 (Dr David Wilson)

Thursday 22 April, 5.30pm - 6.30pm:

History and folklore: the many afterlives of Finella, Lady of the Mearns (Dr Linsey Hunter)

 

 

Past talks and recordings

All our talks are recorded and available to view online a few days after the event:

• 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)