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Residential Postgraduate Training Weekend at The Burn, Edzell
Below includes images and 2 student reports from this weekends event.
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A Spooky Night by Candlelight at The Burn, 26-27 November 2021
Professor Karin Friedrich, Chair of Early Modern European History, recounts an extraordinary night at The Burn as Storm Arwen struck.
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Historian Richard Anderson contributing to roundtable discussion 22 September
Richard Anderson (Lecturer in the History of Slavery) will be contributing to an online roundtable discussion on 22 September on "Liberated Africans and the Study of Slavery: New Directions."
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Virtual Conference '1870/71 Ein Krieg an der Schwelle zur Moderne / Une guerre au seuil de la modern
Dr Heidi Mehrkens will speak on the military presence of monarchs on the battlefield at the international conference '1870/71 Ein Krieg an der Schwelle zur Moderne / Une guerre au seuil de la modernité' (1-3 October 2021). The online conference will discuss the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a political,...
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Paul Dukes, Emeritus Professor of Russian History
Paul Dukes, Emeritus Professor of Russian History whose career at the University spanned over three decades, has sadly passed away after a short illness. Paul was a Cambridge graduate who completed a Masters in American history at the University of Washington at Seattle but came to Russian history after studying the...
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ECR-led journal publishes 2nd open access volume online
Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, an ECR-led open access journal founded by postgraduates at the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, has just released its second volume: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/current-issue-1934.php. As well as the editorial foreword by current PGR Solveig Marie Wang, the issue includes an article by current PGR Caroline Wilhelmsson and a book review...
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Frederik Pedersen appeared live on Times Radio
This Sunday Frederik Pedersen appeared live on Times Radio to comment on historical precedents to Boris Johnson's surprise wedding announcement. Precedents mentioned included the English kings George IV and Henry VIII, but planned discussions of Mary Stuart and of Abelard and Heloise had to be abandoned due to lack of...
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Art History on the Remake
The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History has changed its name to include Art History. Earlier in 2021, the Head of School, Dr Paula Sweeney, proposed that the name of the School ought to properly reflect its constitution – that of four separate disciplines, History, Divinity, Philosophy and Art...
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Dr Jackson Armstrong on Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize shortlist for 2021
Dr Jackson Armstrong's first monograph, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-century Scottish Marches (Cambridge University Press) has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s 2021 Whitfield Prize. The prize offers an annual award of £1,000 for a work on British or Irish history that is the...
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Aberdeen History PhD graduate Susan Marshall's new book published this month!
We are pleased to announce that Aberdeen History PhD graduate Susan Marshall's new book will be published this month. The book is called "Illegitimacy in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1500", and is based on her Aberdeen PhD thesis.For more information, please visit the publisher website: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783275885/illegitimacy-in-medieval-scotland-1100-1500/