Thursdays, 5:15pm, Room: Appleton Tower, 2:12
Thursday 22 September: Professor Callum Brown (University of Glasgow)
‘Becoming Atheist: How Scots lost Religion in the 20th Century’
Thursday 29 September: Dr Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh)
‘Debating Teinds in Early Modern Scotland’
Thursday 6 October: ‘Banquo’s Ghost: England in the Irish and Scottish Historical Imagination’, Roundtable discussion featuring HCA postgraduates, Joint meeting with Irish History seminar
Thursday 13 October: Dr Siobhan Talbott (Keele University)
‘“What cannot be helped must be indured”: British Merchants and the “Anglo-Dutch” Wars, 1652-1678’
Thursday 20 October: Patrick Watt (University of Edinburgh)
‘A Statistical Minefield: Scotland, the Great War and the Manpower Myth’
Thursday 27 October: Laura Paterson (University of Strathclyde)
‘“Sprueling in thair deid thrawis”: Violent Attacks on Animal Property in Early Modern Scotland’
Thursday 3 November: Professor Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
‘A Scientist in Politics: Lyon Playfair (1818-98) and Scottish Education’
Thursday 10 November: Professor Bob Harris (University of Oxford)
‘Fantasy, Gambling and British State Lotteries in the long Eighteenth Century’
Thursday 17 November: Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow)
‘Rethinking Scotland’s Earliest Cartularies’
Thursday 24 November: Dr Leonie James (University of Kent)
‘Archbishop Laud and the Scottish Crisis, 1637-9’
Thursday 1 December: Laura Harrison (University of Edinburgh)
‘Monuments, Murals & Monikers: Nineteenth-Century Commemorations of the Scottish Wars of Independence’
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