WORK IN PROGRESS: SEMINAR PROGRAMME 2005-6

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Second Semester

January 16th, 2006

Ronnie Scott, How to get published?

Laura Johnstone, Heroin use in Scotland, 1960-2000.   

January 30th, 2006

Mark Skippon, 'Decisions, decisions, decisions': A case for multi diagnosis-treatment framework

Alasdair Raffe, Enthusiasm and faith in late seventeenth-century Scottish religious controversy.

February 13th, 2006

Alison Gilmour, Participant observation in Britain from the Victorian era to the twenty-first century.

Gillian Nelson, Linwood and Oral History in the post-war period.

February 27th, 2006

Rachel MacAdam, Learning to Breathe: The Development of Neonatal Resuscitation Techniques After World War Two.

Simon Carr, Clyde-Built: The Rise and Fall of Erskine Provisional Limbs, 1916-c.1920.

March 13th, 2006 (Please note 4.30pm start for Per's Paper followed by a short break, reconvening at 5.15pm for the final two papers.)

Per Ander Eide, Stop Go Policy and Investments.

Michael Macdonald, Kinship & Trust: Scotland-Australia Networking in the Maritime Industries, 1901-1971.

Ryan Douglas, The Lawyer that Hated Law: Lenin on Dictatorship, Law and Red Terror.
 

 

First semester

October 10th, 2005

Catriona Haston, Why did the expansion of Higher education in East Germany not help its economic development?

Niall Mackenzie, ‘Chucking buns across the fence’: Government sponsored industry development in the Scottish Highlands, 1945-81.

October 24th, 2005

Robert Reid, Memories Delayed: The Early British Culture of Computing.

Ben Gillon, 'Raising a luxuriant crop of difficulties for ourselves': The Government of India and the Gulf Arms Traffic, 1899-1910.

November 7th, 2005

Oliver Stockman, Civilian Soldiers: Popular Images of the Home Guard 1940-1944.

Katie Barclay, Creating the Husband: Masculinity and Marriage.

November 21st, 2005

Rosalind Carr, Foppish Frenchmen and Martial Highlanders: The Creation of a British Gentleman  

Leigh Merrick, Local Authorities and the Creation of the NHS in Scotland, 1939-1974.

December 5th, 2005

David Jarman, Nascent Fringe: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1956-1963: Continuity, Evolution and Legacy.

Angela Bartie, A Bubbling Volcano: Edinburgh, its Festivals and the Cultural Explosion of the Sixties.