Monthly Archives: March 2022

Scottish History at a Glance: The ‘Black Dinner’ of 1440

Our History lecturer, Dr Allan Kennedy, looks at the notorious executions of two noblemen under suspicious circumstances during the minority of James II. This article first appeared as part of the ’10 Minutes On…’ column in History Scotland magazine, with whose kind permission it is republished here. The assassination of King James I in 1437

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Finding ‘Georgian Glasgow’: Enlightenment, Slavery & Forgetting

In this guest post, Dr Craig Lamont (University of Glasgow) explores how we can go about rediscovering and reimagining Georgian Glasgow. When I embarked on the ‘Georgian Glasgow’ PhD project in 2012, I did not know all that much about the Georgian era. My knowledge of Glasgow, shaped almost completely by the 20th century, was

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