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The talk will include discussion of broadsides and chapbooks which offer much of great value to ethnologists and social historians. Both can be supplemented with periodical literature, newspapers, magazines and collections of tales. The presentation will be particularly concerned with Tale Collections which have been hitherto largely overlooked by the Academy.Emeritus professor Ted Cowan FRSE formerly Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of Glasgow's Crichton Campus at Dumfries. In the past year he has been keynote speaker/Visiting Professor in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Author of Folk in Print Scotland's Chapbook Literature (2007). His most recent publication is Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000-1600 (2011) which he edited with Lizanne Henderson and to which he contributed. With colleagues from the National Museum of Scotland and the European Ethnology Research Centre he is engaged in an ambitious project on the Regional Ethnology of Dumfries and Galloway.
Part of the King's Museum Tuesday evening Lecture programme, with the Elpinstone Institute. Lectures are held at 7.30pm on Tuesdays. Please contact King's Museum if you have any questions or suggestions. Final details, changes and additions to the programme will be available at: www.abdn.ac.uk/museum/lectures.
- Speaker
- Professor Ted Cowan
- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- Room MR055, MacRobert Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen