The next ISHR seminar will be on Thursday 10 November, when Dr Valerie Wallace of Victoria University of Wellington will present: ‘The Scottish Disruption and the politics of colonial Auckland.’ Dr Valerie Wallace is…
Our next seminar will be on Thursday 27 October (Week 7) when the presenter will be Ms Katy Jack, a doctoral research student at the University of Stirling. Katy will present ”Usurpations [and] infringements”: The…
Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (c.1578-c.1640), was the first Scotswoman to see her poetry printed. This lecture situates her writing in the context of her Calvinist life and milieu, focusing particularly on the…
The next ISHR seminar will take place on Thursday 13 October (Week 5). A joint seminar with Reformation Studies, the speaker will be Dr Michelle Brock of Washington and Lee University, who will present ‘”The people…
We were delighted to welcome Dr Clare Jackson, of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, to St Andrews on Thursday September 29, to deliver the fourth annual TC Smout Lecture in Scottish History. Her address aimed at…
On September 15, the academic year for the ISHR was opened with the traditional Welcome Reception. In the Undercroft, drinks were served, and all the old and new members were gathered for friendly chats and catching…
The program for this semester’s ISHR seminar series is now available, with speakers covering topics as diverse as life and worship in a covenanting town and Scottish identity and empire from the 18th to the 20th…
This half-day colloquium, under the auspices of the Carnegie Literature and Union project, the St Andrews Institutes of Intellectual History and Scottish Historical Research, and the Centre for Robert Burns Studies,…
This year’s annual TC Smout lecture will be delivered by Dr Clare Jackson, Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, at the University of St Andrews, 29 September 2016, at 5:30 pm. The lecture will take…
The Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies is a two-day international conference which will be held at the University of St Andrews on 13 and 14 January 2017. The conference aims is to provide a space for a wide…