Stewart Room, Younger Hall ‘Waves of Deceit in the Early Sixteenth-century: The Bartons, Their Plunder and Why They Got Away with It.’ Dr David Ditchburn Associate Professor in Medieval History Trinity College Dublin A reception will follow in the Younger Hall foyer. All welcome.

"The Universities, Scotland and the British state, 1889-1992."

In today’s discourse Scottish independence is typically seen as incompatible with British identity. In the late Middle Ages Scotland’s sovereignty was celebrated in histories written in Latin, most notably by Fordun and Bower. It seems surprising, therefore, to find statements in Fordun and Bower’s works where the Scottish kingdom is seen in overtly British terms.…