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Ph.D. Scholarship: Scotland and the Flemish People
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce a PhD scholarship as part of a research initiative focused on Scotland and Flemish People and funded by the P F Charitable Trust.
The successful candidate will have a degree in History (minimum 2:1 or equivalent) and ideally a master’s degree in a relevant discipline. The scholarship will cover full UK fees. There are possibilities of applying for further funding, including the Dr Jamie Stuart Cameron Award.
The aim of the Scotland and the Flemish People project is to reassess the impact of the Flemings on Scotland and to explore the interactions between Scotland and Flemings’ ‘homeland’ in Flanders in the medieval and early modern periods. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute original research in this broad field while also helping the project leader in co-ordinating a major conference and publication addressing the aims of the project.
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ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship in Scottish History 2013-14
Call for Applications
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship in Scottish Historical Studies, to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2013-14. The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent university post with research interests in any aspect of Scottish history in any period. It covers the cost of return travel to St Andrews from the holder’s normal place of work, together with a substantial subsidy towards accommodation while the holder is resident in St Andrews.
For further information on the fellowship and how to apply please go to:
http://standrewsschoolofhistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/call-for-applications-ishr-visiting-research-fellowship-in-scottish-history-2013-14/
Politics and the Public in Scotland, c.1300-2000.
Thursday 13 – Friday 14 June 2013, Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews
Call for Papers
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research and the School of History at the University of St Andrews are pleased to announce a two-day Conference exploring the changing relationship between the Scottish public, the political process, and those who sought to represent the public in the political sphere from the late medieval period until the present. More details
The Politics of Counsel and Council in Britain, c.1400-1700
Report on a workshop held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 27th October 2012
The Institute hosted an extremely successful workshop on The Politics of Counsel and Council in Britain on 27th October 2012, organised by Jacqueline Rose, Wayne Cuthbertson, Claire Hawes, and Roger Mason. Postgraduate and established scholars from across the UK participated in a lively and thought-provoking discussion of the relationship between political counsel and government from 1400 to 1700. It is hoped that this will be the first of a series of workshops / conferences on political counsel across time and space. For a report of the day’s proceedings click [here].
The Politics of Counsel and Council in Britain, c.1400-1700
The Institute hosted an extremely successful workshop on The Politics of Counsel and Council in Britain on 27th October 2012, organised by Jacqueline Rose, Wayne Cuthbertson, Claire Hawes, and Roger Mason. Postgraduate and established scholars from across the UK participated in a lively and thought-provoking discussion of the relationship between political counsel and government from 1400 to 1700. It is hoped that this will be the first of a series of workshops / conferences on political counsel across time and space. For a report of the day’s proceedings click here
Professor Roger Mason debates the Declaration of Arbroath
Prof. Roger Mason has stirred controversy by writing a Scotsman article [click here for the article] that questions the iconic status of the Declaration of Arbroath of 1320. He argues that there has been an uncritical acceptance of the view that the Declaration’s precocious statement of popular sovereignty moulded Scottish views of democratic politics from that day to this – and even, along the way, provided a model for the America’s founding fathers in framing their Declaration of Independence. ‘Fetishising the Declaration,’ says Mason, ‘has led to a patriotic suspension of historical judgement.’ In fact, the influence of the Declaration was distinctly limited in Scotland – it is barely even mentioned for 350 years after its composition – and there is no evidence of its impact on colonial America. ‘Its iconic status’, Mason concludes, ‘is very much a late 20th century phenomenon.’
Professor Mason debated the issue with Professor Ted Cowan at a seminar at the University of Glasgow on Tuesday 25 September at 5.30pm. For details, click here.
Prof Colin Kidd joins ISHR staff
The Institute is delighted to welcome Professor Colin Kidd to the ranks of its core staff. Prof Kidd is a distinguished intellectual historian with a particular interest in British political and constitutional thought. His most recent book is Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland 1500-2000 (Cambridge, 2008). He will be contributing to the teaching of the MLitt in Scottish Historical Studies and to the supervision of doctoral research in his fields of interest. On Thursday 25 October, he will be giving a paper to the Institute research seminar on ‘The Ayrshire Enlightenment’. If you haven’t yet had a chance to meet Colin, do please come to the seminar!
Scotland and the Flemish People Project
Thanks to a generous donation from the PF Charitable Trust, a project aimed at uncovering the historic impact of the Flemish people on Scotland is now underway. The project will explore the settlement of Flemings in Scottish urban and rural society in the middle ages and the economic and commercial links this established between Scotland and late medieval Flanders. As part of the Project, the Institute is delighted to welcome Amy Eberlin as the first ‘Fleming Family Scholar’. Amy will be undertaking doctoral research on the Flemings in late medieval Scotland under the supervision of Dr Katie Stevenson.
Council and Counsel Workshop 27 October
The Institute is pleased to announce that it is hosting a one-day workshop on The Politics of Counsel and Council in Britain, 1400-1700 on Saturday 27 October 2012. The workshop is being organised by Claire Hawes and Wayne Cuthbertson, both of whom are doing research that broaches this emerging theme in British historiography, and brings together postgraduates and established scholars from across the UK. It promises to be a very lively and productive day. For the full programme, click here.
