Historical Perspectives

The following seminars took place in the 'Work in Progress' series in 2003-4. Click on a paper title to read the abstract. Details of the 2004-5 programme are available here.

MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY, 5.30PM: GENDER AND HISTORY

Valerie Wright, 'Rethinking interwar feminism: a regional perspective'

Fiona Skillen, 'To what extent did witch hunting equal women hunting?'

Katie Barclay, 'Constructions of Wife In Eighteenth Century Legal Suits'

MONDAY 1 MARCH, 5.30PM

Hilary Young, 'Representation and Reception in the Girls’ Own Paper, Woman and Woman’s Own in the 1950s'

Angela Bartie, 'Godlessness and Dirt: Moral Controversies at the Edinburgh Festivals, 1963 - 1967'

MONDAY 15 MARCH, 5.30PM

David Sutton, ' "Grateful for small mercies": the role of gratitude in medical care provision for the poor in Scotland, c.1875-1911'

Angus Ferguson, 'The cost of keeping quiet: Money and Morals in the battle over medical secrecy in the early Twentieth century'

Ronnie Scott, ‘ “Violating the sepulchres of the dead”: How fear of grave-robbing influenced cemetery design in 19th century Scotland’

MONDAY 19 APRIL, 5.30PM

David Stewart, 'The Union in Crisis : Scotland Under Thatcher, 1979-1990'

Margaret Ritchie, 'The Work Came First: Challenging Categories of Female Empyment'

Niall MacKenzie, 'False Profit: The Failure of the Invergordon Aluminium Smelter, 1968-81'

MONDAY 17 MAY, 5.30PM

Tine Van Bortel, 'The Art of Deliverance: Surgeon-Obstetricians in the 18th-century Austrian Low Countries'

Ben Gillon 'The Deterioration of Civil-Military Relations in the Edwardian Empire Part 1: General Hutton, Lord Minto, Sir wilfrid Laurier and the Reform of the Canadian Militia, 1898-1900'.