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Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History
Dr Gordon Pentland wins prestigious prize for first book
Dr Gordon Pentland, Lecturer in British History, has been awarded the Senior Hume Brown Prize 2010 for his book Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland 1820 - 1833 (RHS Studies in History, 2008).
The prize is the most valuable and prestigious award in Scottish History writing and commemorates the life and work of Peter Hume Brown FBA, the first Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh, itself the world's first ever Chair in the subject. The Senior Hume Brown Prize 2010 is given for the best first book on any aspect of Scottish History published in 2008 or 2009 by a graduate of a Scottish university. The panel of judges consists of the holders of the established Chairs of Scottish History at Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews universities.
Professor Tom Devine, current chair of the panel, commented: ' The 2010 competition attracted a significant number of high-quality entries, testifying to some of the excellent work being done by the new generation of Scottish historians. The judges therefore had a challenging task but in the end agreed that Gordon Pentland's outstanding study of radicalism and identity in the early decades of the nineteenth century was a very worthy winner.'
Previous Winners of the Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History
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Forthcoming Events |
Scottish
History Research Seminar Series
All
seminars, unless noted otherwise will take place on Thursday evenings
beginning at 5.15pm in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
(second floor of the Old Medical School in Teviot Place). Enter by Doorway 1 by the entrance to the quadrangle.
Scottish
History Research Seminar Series 2011-2012
Second
Semester
| 19 January 2012 |
Sonia Baker, University of Edinburgh
Scottish paternalism at home and in Empire; parallels between Scotland and the West Indies
In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies |
26 January 2012 |
Dr Tawny Paul, University of Edinburgh
Interpersonal conflict, community and the courts in eighteenth-century Edinburgh |
2 February 2012
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Dr Karin Bowie, University of Glasgow
"The Sense of the Nation": the People and the Public in pre-Union Scotland |
| 9 February 2012 |
Dr Steve Boardman, University of Edinburgh
The dukes of Albany, Harlaw, and the “defence of the patria”
John Bannerman seminar in the History of Gaelic Scotland |
16 February 2012 |
Ralph Moffat, Glasgow Museums
"The Importance of Being Harnest": Armour, Heraldry and Recognition in the Melee |
23 February 2012
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no seminar
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Wednesday
29 February 2012
at 1pm |
Room 1M.27
William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Teviot Place
Dr Gordon Pentland, University of Edinburgh
Material Culture, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
In association with the Workshop for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion and Culture |
8 March 2012
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Dr Mark Jardine
"The New Mode Against Monarchie": Donald Cargill and Cameronian King Killers in Late-Restoration Scotland, 1680 to 1681. |
15 March 2012 |
Professor Ewen Cameron, University of Edinburgh
J. M. Bannerman and Scottish Liberalism
John Bannerman seminar in the History of Gaelic Scotland |
22 March 2012 |
Dr Andrew MacKillop, University of Aberdeen
Scots Law and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies |
29 March 2012
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ANNUAL JOHN BANNERMAN LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Professor Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow
The origins of the mormaer and the beginning of Scotland
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| 5 April 2012 |
Dr Nick Draper, University College London
Legacies of Scottish Slave-ownership: Scotland's share in Britain's colonial slave empire
In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies |
| Friday 6 April 2011 |
semester ends |
| 19 April 2012 |
Dr Adam Budd, University of Edinburgh
John Armstrong (1709-1778) MD Edin (1732), Expatriate Poet-Physician in London
In association with the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies
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Past Events |
Previous Scottish History Research Seminar Series
Events
of interest outside the University
Scottish
historians featured at three Edinburgh Festivals,
August 2009
The School's Scottish historians featured
prominently at three of the city's major
festivals this year.
Dr James Fraser appeared at the Book Festival
on 18 August and Dr Julian Goodare at the
International Festival on 25 August. Prof
Tom Devine spoke at the International Festival
on 16 August, the Book Festival on 17th
and the Scottish Parliament's Festival of
Politics on 19 August. In addition, on 25
July, he delivered the keynote address at
the Scottish Diaspora Forum, an important
event of the Year of Homecoming celebrations,
in the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament
before a distinguished invited audience.
Further
details
www.eif.co.uk;
www.edbookfest.co.uk;
www.scottishdiasporaforum.org
Festschrift
launch for Professor Michael Lynch
5th
September 2008
Raeburn
Room, Old College
further
details
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