Don't forget our next History Talks Live event is next week, Thursday 12 March!
Join us as we welcome Prof Richard Oram to deliver his talk, 'People and Woods in Angus and Eastern Perthshire: An Environmental History Perspective.'
This is a free, online-only event, see post below for details ⬇️
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Save the Date // 18 April 26, 2pm
Our Dr Nicola Martin will be delivering a talk as part of the 280th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, exploring 'The Highlands and the Forty-Five: The Lesser Known Story'. To book your ticket for this in-person event, visit uhihistory.short.gy/N5lOIV
A recording of the talk delivered by Christopher Whatley, University of Dundee speaking on ‘Harvie’s Dyke, 1823: The People, Their Liberty and the Radicalism of Place' is now available on the History Events page of our website uhihistory.short.gy/kLs2Gr or our YouTube channel, youtu.be/Oz2wRH2pzlA
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Join our Dr Lucy Dean and other expert speakers at this exciting symposium, hosted by Culture Perth and Kinross and Historic Environment Scotland.
Saturday 14 March, 9-6pm at Perth Art Gallery.
For further information and tickets, visit
uhihistory.short.gy/4RimAN
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Handwritten entry on trespasses, dated 1776.
It's been a busy first year for our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project, Landscapes of Protest. In this most recent blog Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social reflects on the archival findings thus far, next steps and future events, lnkd.in/ef5eF6be
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📣Save the date!📣
Join us on Thursday 12 March at 7pm for our next History Talks Live event. Our speaker will be Prof Richard Oram, University of Stirling. For further details on the event, uhihistory.short.gy/HWcZxn
📅Thursday 12 March 2026
⏰ 7-8.30 pm
📍Online uhihistory.short.gy/Lgggco
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Join our Dr Nicola Martin next Monday, 16 February at 7pm, for an online talk for on 'The British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution, 1745-1775'.
This is a free, online only talk, and registration is necessary through the @societyarmy.bsky.social. See original post below for link ⬇️
Our Dr Elizabeth Ritchie’s article, 'Families at Sea', is now available to read online through @edinburghup.bsky.social.
The article was published in the most recent issue of the International Review of Scottish Studies.
To read the full article, visit uhihistory.short.gy/VC0HfR
On a new blog post for our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project, Landscapes of Protest, Emeritus Professor Chris Whatley (Uni of Dundee) discusses the Dundee Meal Riots of 1773.
Read the full post on the project website, uhihistory.short.gy/zzdbkb
📷:NRS, RHP4487
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As the calendar year comes to a close, we would like to wish everyone a lovely festive season!
UHI Centre for History will now be closed until the university reopens on Monday 5 January 2026.
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Join us in January!
We offer four PGT programmes, including MLitt History & MLitt History of the Highlands & Islands. In the latest Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, our MLitt History scored a perfect 100% for overall student satisfaction.
To find out more and to apply ➡️ bit.ly/CfH-PGT-study
The project team are very grateful to Alison for agreeing to write this blog & supporting the project in her role as member of the Advisory Board. Pictured above, are Alison & project investigator Carl Griffin in the archives in Inveraray.
Find out more, bit.ly/468RTJS
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In the latest entry from the Landscapes of Protest blog series, the archivist for Argyll Estate Archives, Alison Diamond, reflects on a curious document dated 1768 mentioning 'luddite encroachments' in Campbeltown harbour...Or were there?
Read more, bit.ly/4q10N3L
@juliettedesportes.bsky.social
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Start your studies in January 2026!
Our single and joint honours UG History programmes are available on a part-time basis, starting in January. You can also choose to specialise in Scottish History in third and fourth years.
To find out more, visit bit.ly/3VqCBei
Read the latest blog for Landscapes of Protest, a research project funded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk! In this most recent post, co-lead Carl Griffin reflects on what brought him to Scottish history & the study of Highland resistance, bit.ly/4aNibUx
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This article shifts the current focus on gender and the diplomatic power couple in the New Diplomatic History to demonstrate the importance of studying the entire diplomatic family’s experience of life abroad, particularly the role of mothers and children.
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Our Dr Philippa Woodcock's freshly published article, 'Fertile Negotiators: The Venetian Family-Embassies at the Court of Louis XIV' is now available to read on open access bit.ly/451S8Fs
The article was published in The Court Historian, in December 2025.
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Book cover of Harvie’s Dyke: The People, Their Liberty and the Clyde by Christopher A. Whatley. The cover features sketch-like illustrations of people in historical attire holding tools or weapons, set against a parchment-style background.
Don't forget to join us on Tuesday 9 December 7-8.30pm for our next History Talks Live seminar event.
This is a free, online-only event. For further details and to join the event, visit bit.ly/3K4hXNX
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Don't forget our next Humanities Open Evening is tomorrow Thu, 27 Nov, 6.30-8pm!
Here's what one of recent graduates said about UHI History: "I really enjoyed my experience on the BA History & Criminology course...the support from all the UHI staff was amazing."
See below for details & booking ⬇️
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Read about our Dr Philippa Woodcock's research trip to Drum Castle for her project '"They wept together": Investigating miscarriage, taboo & support in early modern Scotland'.
Visit our website for the full piece, bit.ly/4p0DaaI
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📷:Hugh Irvine, The Archangel Gabriel (NTS)
Mhairi’s PhD is a multidisciplinary approach to researching taighean-tughaidh (thatched houses) in Uist, Western Isles. You can find out more about Mhairi’s PhD here, bit.ly/4p9fh0E
24.11.2025 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0By reflecting on a day of archaeological fieldwork, she considered the multidisciplinary approach of her project & what it means to complete emotionally engaged archaeology. The paper was part of the panel '(In)Tangible Pasts', exploring Gaelic & Hebridean heritage, culture & archaeology.
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Last month one of our PGRs, Mhairi Ferrier, presented a paper ‘A Thatched House in Torlum: Exploring the Boundaries of Archaeological Practice’ at the @scotarchforum.bsky.social's conference in Edinburgh.
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Her dissertation, 'Propaganda in the Cinemas: Short Films as a Method of Propaganda in Britain during the Second World War (1939-45)' examines how the Ministry of Information infused key propaganda messages with comedy & drama, reaching a large number of people through the cinema.
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We are so proud to celebrate this year's winner of the James Hunter Dissertation Prize, Joy Rollinson! The prize is awarded to the best 1st Class UG dissertation & is named after our founder, Professor Jim Hunter. Find out more on our website, bit.ly/44oV3HX
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Book cover of Harvie’s Dyke: The People, Their Liberty and the Clyde by Christopher A. Whatley. The cover features sketch-like illustrations of people in historical attire holding tools or weapons, set against a parchment-style background.
Join us for our next History Talks Live seminar event. The speaker will be Christopher Whatley, Professor Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Dundee.
📷Tuesday 9 December 2025
📷 7-8.30pm
📷Online
To find out more, visit bit.ly/3K4hXNX
@uhihistory.bsky.social
Her doctoral thesis explored the narrative strategies in Outlander and historical fiction as public history, and she is pictured above with her supervisors Dr Jim MacPherson and Dr Leslie Mickel at her viva in June 2025.
Congratulations again!
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It has been a busy graduations season at
@thinkuhi.bsky.social, and we would like to congratulate all our students celebrating their achievements! Big congratulations especially to one of our PG Researchers, Dr Alex Dold, who is graduating today at the UHI celebrations at Eden Court, Inverness!
This is the #history degree I am doing. I am doing it part-time. So part time it will take me 12 years! But history is about the long-haul, so that fits!
I am loving it! Happy to say why, if anyone wants to know.
Start your undergraduate History studies at @uhihistory.bsky.social in January 2026!
Join us on Thursday 27 November (6.30-8pm) to learn more about studying Humanities at UHI, and where a degree in Humanities can take you.
For more information and to book your place, visit bit.ly/3JtXfad
