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  1. 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...

  2. British codebreaking and American secrecy in the First World War

    British codebreaking and American secrecy in the First World War

    ISWS Seminar Series: Guest speaker Daniel Larsen

    Beginning in late 1915, British codebreakers cracked the US diplomatic codebooks and were reading all of American diplomats' transatlantic telegraphic...

  3. 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. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    ISWS Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Aoife McCullough

    Foreign military assistance is intended to support security forces in recipient nations to fight insurgencies, and maintain stability and political order....

  7. Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    the Artillery -- Cutting Edge or Laggard? with guest speaker Guy Rowlands

    Few historians bandying around the terms 'military professional' and 'military professionalism' have given much space to explaining what...

  8. Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    ISWS Book Launch Event

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict Edited by Michael Finch, Aimée Fox & David Morgan-Owen...