SCOTTISH PRINTER MIGRATION in the Victorian world

FROM THE EDITOR

The appearance of a group of migrants in a busy city

HISTORY NEWS

New research suggests Robert Burns may have had bipolar

Introducing the History Scotland Lectures

Kelly Anderson reports on the inaugural History Scotland lecture, held in Dundee on 24 April, the text of which is published on page 36

Our Linen Stories

The bleach fields and retting waters of Scotland are an often forgotten legacy of the once-mighty flax and linen industries that blossomed in the 18th and 19th centuries, writes Matthew Shelley

THE LAST HEPBURNS OF SMEATON HEPBURN

David Affleck introduces an exhibition which uses historic artefacts to tell the story of a family at the heart of East Lothian history, whose achievements included involvement in 18th- and 19th-century agricultural reform and the creation of Logan Botanic Garden

RHYMING POLITICS: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE

The People’s Voice project explores the role played by poetry and song in campaigns for the extension of the electoral franchise, between 1832 and 1918. By Dr Catriona M.M. Macdonald

UNCOVERING STORIES OF MILITARY COLLECTING

Nicole Hartwell tells the story of a delicatelyembroidered Indian textile whose appearance is at odds with the tumultuous and bloody period of British Indian history to which it is connected

THE JEWEL OF 16TH-CENTURY SCOTLAND

A new digital reconstruction of the cathedral of St Andrews shows the lost splendour of this religious building and its surroundings just before the site was destroyed during the reformation.

ANNABELLA DRUMMOND THE PATIENT QUEEN

In the second instalment of her ground-breaking series, Dr Amy Hayes tells the story of Annabella Drummond, wife of Robert III, who in a relatively short reign of eleven years provided an early blueprint for active, successful queenship

NEW HERITAGE TRAIL

Take a step back into the early days of the Scottish Enlightenment in Edinburgh. By Murray Pittock and Craig Lamont

DIGGING BENEATH THE STREETS OF INVERNESS

Mary Peteranna and Lindsey Stirling of AOC Archaeology report on recent work carried out as part of the River Ness Flood Alleviation scheme, which revealed the remains of buildings beneath the city streets which were thought to have been lost forever

COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY TEAM UNCOVERS POSSIBLE

Archaeology volunteers around Thurso in the Highlands were invited to take part in a recent archaeology event at the Caithness Broch festival, and were delighted to discover signs of what may be a previously unknown prehistoric settlement

‘WHAT I PROPOSE DOING WITH THE PEOPLE? I SAY – NOTHING’

Neil M. Bruce explores the reaction of the press to the appearance on the Scottish mainland of refugees from Barra, who arrived in 1850 in an effort to the escape the effects of potato famine and who found themselves at the centre of a complex and shifting media narrative

Who were the Jacobites and what did they want for Scotland?

Professor Murray Pittock and Professor Christopher Whatley debate the nature of Jacobitism in 18th-century Scotland, discussing what the Jacobite vision for Scotland was and how it compared to the competing ambitions of Scotland’s Whigs, who supported the exclusion of the Jacobite claimants. This article is based on the first History Scotland Lecture, delivered in Dundee on 24 April 2018

Force-feeding: punishment or treatment?

Archivist Jocelyn Grant delves into the distressing story of how one Scottish suffragette was treated by the authorities

Tales of a Land Girl

Gail Jack explores an autobiographical account of one woman’s experience as a Land Girl

Medieval St Andrews

Victoria Hodgson enjoys a fresh contribution to the historiography of medieval St Andrews

DISCOVERING DIVERSE DUNDEE

Ahead of the opening of the new V&A, Neil McLennan visits Dundee to explore the lesser-known historic gems that await both first-time visitors and those returning to the city

DIARY DATES Get into buildings this autumn!

Doors Open Days is an annual festival which runs throughout

READING THE WILL

In our new series, exploring the nation’s history through art, we study the painting Reading the Will by William Home Lizars, in which the artist presents the complexities of human nature through the work’s incredible detail

Spotlight on…The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

Spotlight on…The Scottish Society of the History of

Sporting ancestors

Ken Nisbet takes a look at the resources you can use to find out more about your ancestor’s sporting activities, from cricket to Highland games

Treasures of the SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY

In the first instalment of a new series about the rich body of primary-source material published by the Scottish History Society, Annie Tindley explores a seminal collection of Jacobite papers edited by Henry Paton at the end of the 19th century