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The team are hugely grateful to Alison Diamond (archivist at Inveraray castle & member of the project's advisory board, pictured here with Carl Griffin) & Rory Crutchfield, archivist in Lochgilphead for their help & interest in the research. Find out more, bit.ly/468RTJS
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The team are hugely grateful to Alison Diamond (archivist at Inveraray castle & member of the project's advisory board, pictured here with Carl Griffin) & Rory Crutchfield, archivist in Lochgilphead for their help & interest in the research. Find out more, bit.ly/468RTJS
Iain Robertson, Carl Griffin & @juliettedesportes.bsky.social recently spent a week visiting Inveraray Castle archives & @argyllandbute.bsky.social archives in Lochgilphead to conduct archival research for their @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded project Landscapes of Protest.
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Iain Robertson, Carl Griffin & @juliettedesportes.bsky.social recently spent a week visiting Inveraray Castle archives & @argyllandbute.bsky.social archives in Lochgilphead to conduct archival research for their @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded project Landscapes of Protest.
Our Dr Philippa Woodcock is a recipient of the David Berry Fellowship for the History of Scotland & the Scottish People by the @royalhistsoc.org, and the funding is supporting her project ”They wept together”: Investigating miscarriage, taboo & support in early modern Scotland.
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Our Dr Philippa Woodcock is a recipient of the David Berry Fellowship for the History of Scotland & the Scottish People by the @royalhistsoc.org, and the funding is supporting her project ”They wept together”: Investigating miscarriage, taboo & support in early modern Scotland.
This week is Heritage Careers Week and we took the opportunity to chat to our recent graduate, Feargus Murray, about his experiences of working in the museums sector! To read the full story, visit bit.ly/42Ym3O4
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This week is Heritage Careers Week and we took the opportunity to chat to our recent graduate, Feargus Murray, about his experiences of working in the museums sector! To read the full story, visit bit.ly/42Ym3O4
Our Dr Juliette Desportes gave a talk at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Scottish History seminar in September, focusing on uncovering Highland estate tenants' attitudes towards agrarian 'improvement' in the mid-eighteenth century.
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our Dr Juliette Desportes gave a talk at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Scottish History seminar in September, focusing on uncovering Highland estate tenants' attitudes towards agrarian 'improvement' in the mid-eighteenth century.
It’s graduation season at @thinkuhi.bsky.social & and we are thrilled to also celebrate our alumni who have continued their academic journeys elsewhere after @uhihistory.bsky.social! Big congratulations to Dr Theresa Mackay, who received her doctorate from @uvic.ca, BC this summer!
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It’s graduation season at @thinkuhi.bsky.social & and we are thrilled to also celebrate our alumni who have continued their academic journeys elsewhere after @uhihistory.bsky.social! Big congratulations to Dr Theresa Mackay, who received her doctorate from @uvic.ca, BC this summer!
Join our recent graduate Feargus Murray on Tue 28 October(2.30-4pm) at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery for an illustrated talk celebrating 200 years of collecting! This is an opportunity to learn more about the beginnings of the museum: who was donating and what they were collecting, bit.ly/3IEKQje
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Join our recent graduate Feargus Murray on Tue 28 October(2.30-4pm) at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery for an illustrated talk celebrating 200 years of collecting! This is an opportunity to learn more about the beginnings of the museum: who was donating and what they were collecting, bit.ly/3IEKQje
Our Dr Nicola Martin is giving a talk on Jacobitism and Clanship as part of the Dornoch Autumn Highland Festival!
📅 Fri 24 Oct 2025
🕚 11am
📍 Historylinks Museum, Dornoch
For further details on this in-person talk and to buy your ticket, visit bit.ly/43eC3LN
📅 Fri 24 Oct 2025
🕚 11am
📍 Historylinks Museum, Dornoch
For further details on this in-person talk and to buy your ticket, visit bit.ly/43eC3LN
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Our Dr Nicola Martin is giving a talk on Jacobitism and Clanship as part of the Dornoch Autumn Highland Festival!
📅 Fri 24 Oct 2025
🕚 11am
📍 Historylinks Museum, Dornoch
For further details on this in-person talk and to buy your ticket, visit bit.ly/43eC3LN
📅 Fri 24 Oct 2025
🕚 11am
📍 Historylinks Museum, Dornoch
For further details on this in-person talk and to buy your ticket, visit bit.ly/43eC3LN
Our Dr Nicola Martin was in Stockholm last week to deliver a paper at the @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social, discussing the 'Laws of War'. This was a brilliant opportunity to continue developing our special relationship & follows the signing of an MoU in 2024, facilitated by our Dr Kathrin Zickermann.
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our Dr Nicola Martin was in Stockholm last week to deliver a paper at the @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social, discussing the 'Laws of War'. This was a brilliant opportunity to continue developing our special relationship & follows the signing of an MoU in 2024, facilitated by our Dr Kathrin Zickermann.
Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5
October 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5
Lisa Williams (Black History Scotland) & the Very Rev. Sally Foster-Fulton (Christian Aid) joined with Dr Jim MacPherson in calling for communities across Scotland to research their connections with historic trans-Atlantic slavery and to use this to fight injustice and inequality in the present.
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lisa Williams (Black History Scotland) & the Very Rev. Sally Foster-Fulton (Christian Aid) joined with Dr Jim MacPherson in calling for communities across Scotland to research their connections with historic trans-Atlantic slavery and to use this to fight injustice and inequality in the present.
Facilitated by Jo Watson of Làmhan, and made by the pupils at Aberlour and Craigellachie Primary Schools, and the congregations and wider community of Aberlour, the banners were the focal point of a day of discussion and reflection about using this past to build dialogue with communities in Jamaica.
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Facilitated by Jo Watson of Làmhan, and made by the pupils at Aberlour and Craigellachie Primary Schools, and the congregations and wider community of Aberlour, the banners were the focal point of a day of discussion and reflection about using this past to build dialogue with communities in Jamaica.
Over 60 people came to Aberlour Parish Church of Scotland for the unveiling of textile banners addressing the legacies of slavery in the local area. The event is part of our Dr Jim MacPherson's research project, Legacies of Slavery in Scotland, bit.ly/46Dpf3Q
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Over 60 people came to Aberlour Parish Church of Scotland for the unveiling of textile banners addressing the legacies of slavery in the local area. The event is part of our Dr Jim MacPherson's research project, Legacies of Slavery in Scotland, bit.ly/46Dpf3Q
Congratulations to our PGT student Corrina Thomson, whose article ‘Encased in Glass: Commemorating the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor’ has been published in the most recent issue of Viewpoint, the magazine for the British Society for the History of Science, bit.ly/4nA21BC
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October 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Congratulations to our PGT student Corrina Thomson, whose article ‘Encased in Glass: Commemorating the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor’ has been published in the most recent issue of Viewpoint, the magazine for the British Society for the History of Science, bit.ly/4nA21BC
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As the @thinkuhi.bsky.social graduations season continues, we would like to send huge congratulations to all our students celebrating their achievements! Our Dr @linseyhunter.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Dean had the great privilege to be part of the celebrations at UHI Perth yesterday 🎓🎉 #UHIGrad
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As the @thinkuhi.bsky.social graduations season continues, we would like to send huge congratulations to all our students celebrating their achievements! Our Dr @linseyhunter.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Dean had the great privilege to be part of the celebrations at UHI Perth yesterday 🎓🎉 #UHIGrad
Our Dr Elizabeth Ritchie & @uhihistory.bsky.social PhD graduate Dr Joanna Rodgers were both at the 'Outer Hebrides Emigration Conference' in Stornoway!
Dr Rodgers discussed ancestral tourism in Tiree & Dr Ritchie the impact of emigration on courtship & family formation among 19thC Scots migrants.
Dr Rodgers discussed ancestral tourism in Tiree & Dr Ritchie the impact of emigration on courtship & family formation among 19thC Scots migrants.
October 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Our Dr Elizabeth Ritchie & @uhihistory.bsky.social PhD graduate Dr Joanna Rodgers were both at the 'Outer Hebrides Emigration Conference' in Stornoway!
Dr Rodgers discussed ancestral tourism in Tiree & Dr Ritchie the impact of emigration on courtship & family formation among 19thC Scots migrants.
Dr Rodgers discussed ancestral tourism in Tiree & Dr Ritchie the impact of emigration on courtship & family formation among 19thC Scots migrants.
📣Save the date!📣
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣Save the date!📣
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
@uhihistory.bsky.social & @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social joined forces last weekend to promote @thinkuhi.bsky.social at the Highland Archaeology Festival!
What a brilliant opportunity to chat to attendees & share details about the cutting edge research and Humanities study options at UHI!
What a brilliant opportunity to chat to attendees & share details about the cutting edge research and Humanities study options at UHI!
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@uhihistory.bsky.social & @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social joined forces last weekend to promote @thinkuhi.bsky.social at the Highland Archaeology Festival!
What a brilliant opportunity to chat to attendees & share details about the cutting edge research and Humanities study options at UHI!
What a brilliant opportunity to chat to attendees & share details about the cutting edge research and Humanities study options at UHI!
Congratulations to our Dr Alison Chand who recently secured a @britishacademy.bsky.social/@leverhulme.ac.uk Small Research Grant for initial work on her next exciting oral history project: “Beyond the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Teenagers and Young Adults in Scotland During the Covid-19 Pandemic”!
September 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Congratulations to our Dr Alison Chand who recently secured a @britishacademy.bsky.social/@leverhulme.ac.uk Small Research Grant for initial work on her next exciting oral history project: “Beyond the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Teenagers and Young Adults in Scotland During the Covid-19 Pandemic”!
You can find our Dr Philippa Woodcock's chapter 'The Ambassadors’ Fireworks Parties: Public and Private Performance in Bourbon Paris' in the newly published Performing Diplomacy in the Early Modern World!
For full list of content and contributors: bit.ly/3JSYT52
For full list of content and contributors: bit.ly/3JSYT52
September 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
You can find our Dr Philippa Woodcock's chapter 'The Ambassadors’ Fireworks Parties: Public and Private Performance in Bourbon Paris' in the newly published Performing Diplomacy in the Early Modern World!
For full list of content and contributors: bit.ly/3JSYT52
For full list of content and contributors: bit.ly/3JSYT52
Another great year for MLitt History programmes @uhihistory.bsky.social! MLitt History scored 100% in overall student satisfaction in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey. See our website for more information to join one of our four programmes - bit.ly/CfH-PGT-study
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Another great year for MLitt History programmes @uhihistory.bsky.social! MLitt History scored 100% in overall student satisfaction in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey. See our website for more information to join one of our four programmes - bit.ly/CfH-PGT-study
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
Our Dr Elizabeth Ritchie and @uhihistory.bsky.social alumna, Dr Joanna Rodgers, are among the speakers for the Saoghal Mòr Farsaing Hebridean Emigration Conference, held at Lews Castle, Stornoway, 30 September to 2 October 2025.
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our Dr Elizabeth Ritchie and @uhihistory.bsky.social alumna, Dr Joanna Rodgers, are among the speakers for the Saoghal Mòr Farsaing Hebridean Emigration Conference, held at Lews Castle, Stornoway, 30 September to 2 October 2025.
We are busy getting ready for the new academic year, but our Dr Nicola Martin had a great afternoon out with students, visiting Abertarff House, the oldest house in Inverness. The students also had the opportunity to view short film 1745: An Untold Story of Slavery.
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We are busy getting ready for the new academic year, but our Dr Nicola Martin had a great afternoon out with students, visiting Abertarff House, the oldest house in Inverness. The students also had the opportunity to view short film 1745: An Untold Story of Slavery.
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social is 2nd in Scotland in the National Student Survey 2024-25 for overall satisfaction in the history category & @uhihistory.bsky.social team received 10 Highlands & Islands Students Association nominations & highly commended awards in 4 different categories. Well done!
#UHI
#UHI
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@thinkuhi.bsky.social is 2nd in Scotland in the National Student Survey 2024-25 for overall satisfaction in the history category & @uhihistory.bsky.social team received 10 Highlands & Islands Students Association nominations & highly commended awards in 4 different categories. Well done!
#UHI
#UHI
The article assesses the assumption that women lacked ‘political agency’ in instances of treason or lesser rebellion against the Scottish crown, and argues that we can use evidence of imprisonment as an indicator of ‘public’ female political agency in the later Middle Ages.
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The article assesses the assumption that women lacked ‘political agency’ in instances of treason or lesser rebellion against the Scottish crown, and argues that we can use evidence of imprisonment as an indicator of ‘public’ female political agency in the later Middle Ages.
@thinkuhi.bsky.social
@thinkuhi.bsky.social