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  1. Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Nicola Martin (UHI)

    Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Nicola Martin (UHI)

    Principle, Politics, Patronage? Highland Whig Loyalism during the Jacobite era

    Institute for Scottish Historical Research Seminar -- Dr Nicola Martin (UHI) Principle, Politics, Patronage? Highland Whig Loyalism during the Jacobite...

  2. The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

  3. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews)

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews)

    Wittenberg University, Philipp Melanchthon, and the making of the third best-selling author in the sixteenth century

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews) Wittenberg University, Philipp Melanchthon, and the making of the third best-selling...

  4. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lili Scott Lintot (St Andrews)

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lili Scott Lintot (St Andrews)

    "An immense accumulation of wretchedness" : Grief in the Conflict Between Henry II and Thomas Becket

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lili Scott Lintot (St Andrews) "An immense accumulation of wretchedness" : Grief in the...

  5. On the body

    On the body

    An interdisciplinary conference on race and racism in medicine and the humanities

    All are welcome to our free, catered, one-day interdisciplinary conference on race and racism in medicine and the humanities. The day is about connecting the...

  6. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Simon Parsons (University of Bristol)

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Simon Parsons (University of Bristol)

    The Social Function of the Twelfth-Century Crusade Epic

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Simon Parsons (University of Bristol) The Social Function of the Twelfth-Century Crusade Epic

  7. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Sara Beam (British Columbia -- Cameron Faculty Fellow)

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Sara Beam (British Columbia -- Cameron Faculty Fellow)

    Torture, Moral Reform and Witches in Reformation Geneva

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar -- Dr Sara Beam (British Columbia -- Cameron Faculty Fellow) Torture, Moral Reform and Witches in Reformation...

  8. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lucy Sackville (University of York)

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lucy Sackville (University of York)

    On the Road: an Early Fourteenth-Century Inquisitor and his Handbook

    St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar -- Dr Lucy Sackville (University of York) On the Road: an Early Fourteenth-Century Inquisitor and his...

  9. Institute for Scottish Historical Research --- Annual Smout Lecture --- Dr David Ditchburn

    Institute for Scottish Historical Research --- Annual Smout Lecture --- Dr David Ditchburn

    Waves of Deceit in the Early Sixteenth-century: The Bartons, Their Plunder and Why They Got Away with It

    Institute for Scottish Historical Research Annual Smout Lecture -- Dr David Ditchburn (Trinity College, Dublin) Waves of Deceit in the Early...

  10. Voyage Round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Voyage Round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume 'Voyage Round Great Britain'. He'd started his...

  11. The Backside of the bones: an analytical study of Shang dynasty oracle bones

    The Backside of the bones: an analytical study of Shang dynasty oracle bones

    Lifting the veil of the future has been a concern for humans from the omens of ancient Mesopotamia to computer-generated horoscopes. As a method, Shang...

  12. Settlement and society in Argyll and the southern Hebrides, circa 800BC to circa AD1300

    Settlement and society in Argyll and the southern Hebrides, circa 800BC to circa AD1300

    Dr Russell Ó Ríagřin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, takes a settlement-based approach to the social processes at work in mid-west...

  13. Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...

  14. Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...