History Scotland

MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

Stana Nenadic is professor of social and cultural

PATRONS

David Breeze Christopher Smout Historiographer Royal Elizabeth Ewan

FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to the first History Scotland of 2023,

Dundee’s historic links with slavery acknowledged

Dundee’s historic links to slavery are being acknowledged

Launch of campaign to save Glasgow ’s Egyptian Halls

A new organisation,The Egyptian Halls SCIO, has been established with the aim of seeing the Egyptian Halls on Union Street in Glasgow restored and fully brought back into use

Bird’s eye map captures a city ‘on the cusp of greatness’

Gallus Glasgow, a new project from Glasgow City HeritageTrust, uses an intricate 19th-century map of Glasgow as a catalyst for exploring the following 50 years of the city’s development, as it became ‘the Second City of the Empire’

Catching Edinburgh’s stories at Museums & Galleries Edinburgh

If the past is a tangled web of which only a few threads survive, how should we consider historic collections held in our museums? Do they tell a complete story? What stories are missing? Whose stories are missing? Nico Tyack tells us more…

‘A BERWICKSHIRE POLICEMAN, FROZEN TO DEATH’

The tragic and short police career of John Drummond

‘FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE IN DUNDEE’: THE TRAGEDY OF SPRINGTHORPE’S MUSIC HALL

Dr Billy Rough uses contemporary newspaper reports to explore the forgotten story of a music hall tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 people on a winter’s night in 1865

CL AN FORBES FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT

Philip Stead presents findings from a research project that investigated the degree of relationship between Clan Forbes members and the Forbes chieftain lineage

SWITCHING SIDES

Spotlight: Jacobites returns with a look into the soldiers from the British army who deserted their ranks and ended up fighting amongst their Jacobite foes. Dr Darren S. Layne explains

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN OF SCOTL AND’S HERITAGE SITES?

Do Scotland’s heritage sites do a good job of presenting the role of women in history? That’s the question Shona Burns asks as she shares some of her interpretation proposals based around the life of Mary Queen of Scots

TR ANSPORTED ON THE SEAS, TO ‘BE YOND SEAS’

Lesley Dunbar uses the case studies of five Scottish women transported to Van Diemen’s Land to demonstrate the journey that awaited those sentenced to transportation across the world, and the fate that awaited the prisoners at their destination

CRAFTWORKERS IN 19TH-CENTURY SCOTLAND: A ‘GOLDEN AGE’

Though usually remembered as an age of industrialisation, the 1800s was also marked by a vibrant craft sector, with the skills and ingenuity of craftworkers being highly regarded and widely celebrated. Professor Stana Nenadic, author of a new book on craftworking, explores this 19th-century heyday

THE HIGHL AND WAR, PART 1

In the opening instalment of a new, four-part series about the first Jacobite rising, also known as the Highland War of 1689-91, Dr Graeme Millen explores the background to the conflict, and assesses how the opposing sides went about gathering their forces

The duke of Lennox, 1574-1624

The French-born Ludovic Stuart, duke of Lennox, was one of the most important courtiers during the reign of James VI, and in this position played a central role in the politics of his era, but he is largely unknown today. Drawing upon his new biography of Lennox, Professor David M. Bergeron explores the duke’s overlooked life and legacy

St Ninian: Scotland’s forgotten patron saint

While St Andrew has long been recognised as Scotland’s official patron saint, his preeminence was challenged throughout the later Middle Ages by St Ninian, whose reputation for highly practical miracle-working saw him become an unofficial alternative to the apostle. Dr Tom Turpie explains

SPOTLIGHT ON… DID FISH DIET OF IRON AGE ‘ELDER’ MARK HER AS SPECIAL?

Analysis of a woman’s jawbone deposited outside an Iron Age broch around AD200 has shown that seafood was a major part of her diet

Songs of the Hebrides

Clare Stubbs tells the story of Marjory Kennedy Fraser – a music teacher, suffragette and significant player in the Celtic revival movement

THE PORTEOUS RIOTS

History Scotland’s consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, revisits the infamous Edinburgh riots of 1736, often seen by historians as an indirect attack not just on the government of Sir Robert Walpole, but on the very fabric of the Anglo-Scottish union

BOOK REVIEWS

Explore a selection of digital history guides in the History Scotland store: https://scot.sh/hsdownload

DID YOUR ANCESTOR SPEAK OR WRITE GAELIC?

Ken Nisbet uses an 1892 newspaper report featuring his 3 x great-grandmother as inspiration for a look at the clues that might tell us whether or not our ancestors spoke Gaelic

The challenges of union

Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams presents two key historic texts that explore the advantages and disadvantages of the union between Scotland and England, and which underpin current-day debates

FINAL WORD

Tòmas MacAilpein and Fraser Blain talk to us about a newly-launched online collection of Gaelic recodings from Nova Scotia

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