The Prize is intended to promote the careers of ECRs, and especially those from social groups who remain under-represented in the SHR’s author profile, by providing an opportunity to publish in a leading peer-reviewed journal.
Deadline: Tuesday 8 September at 5pm.
Join us online next week for The Frank Watson Book Prize Lecture presented by Dr. Catriona Macdonald from the University of Glasgow.
Patrons and Politics in the Making of Scottish History: Past, Present and Future
📅 Thursday 23 April, 2026
🕰️ 1pm (EDT) / 6pm (UK)
💻 Zoom
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Join the livestream this Friday 10 April!
Keynote speaker: Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh)
Fantastic line-up of speakers with talks beginning at 1:00pm (EDT).
Programme details and the Livestream link can be found here:
www.mcgill.ca/can.../canad...
Grant Schreiber presented ‘Discipline, Education, and Correction: Social Control of the Poor in seventeenth-century Aberdeen’ at the Canadian-Scottish Studies Colloquium.
Proud of our alumni and the contributions they are making to new work in Scottish Studies.
www.youtube.com/live/Qw0gwA5...
The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast talks to Donald S. Murray about his new novel The Loch of the Bees, out now from @saraband-books.bsky.social. Donald discusses his inspirations, as well as history, Gaelic culture & language – & the attempts to suppress them
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www.scotswhayhae.com/post/the-sti...
🌟Student Research Spotlight!
@uguelphhist.bsky.social MA student Gavin is researching national identity and militarism in Scottish chapbook songs of the Napoleonic Wars, investigating how songs widely available to the Scottish working class negotiate Scotland's position within the British union. 📖
Also worth noting are the very many specialist UK history societies which support researchers of differing backgrounds and career stages.
We've a new listing of 100 such organisations and scholarly communities bit.ly/4uu1yUr, with further listings of record societies & BlueSky networks #Skystorians
Scottish History MA student Suzanne presented at the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference. She introduced the audience to her primary source research for her Masters thesis about the widows of the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, which took place on October 14, 1881.
Join us online tomorrow, Thursday 23 April, 1pm (EDT) on Zoom. All are welcome to attend!
Happy Tartan Day to all those celebrating their connections to Scotland!
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali headed to Stirling to talk to writer Donald S. Murray about his new novel The Loch Of The Bees, which is published with Saraband Books.
The two met at the la...
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We've just launched our EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER ARTICLE PRIZE competition. See the website for more details:
Join us online next week for The Frank Watson Book Prize Lecture presented by Dr. Catriona Macdonald from the University of Glasgow.
Patrons and Politics in the Making of Scottish History: Past, Present and Future
📅 Thursday 23 April, 2026
🕰️ 1pm (EDT) / 6pm (UK)
💻 Zoom
bit.ly/FWBookPrizeL...
Join us on 10th April for the annual Canadian-Scottish Studies Colloquium! We have a fascinating range of speakers and panels lined up. The event will be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person. RSVP at [email protected]
