Category Archives: Events

Marking Conscientious Objectors Awareness Week in Dundee: 18th & 19th May 2018

Great War Dundee and Abertay Historical Society are marking Conscientious Objectors Week with a series of collaborative events, which will take place on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th May. These are free and open to all. Click here to download the full programme. Highlights include: Abertay Historical Society & Great War Dundee Evening Lecture Cyril Pearce

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Writings from Scotland Before the Union

Now in its second year, Writings from Scotland Before the Unionis a one-day conference, hosted by the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee, which seeks to further understand how Scotland saw herself in literary terms before formal union in 1707. Registration opens at 09:30 on April 21st in the Baxter Suite in the

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Who were the Jacobites and what did they want for Scotland? Inaugural History Scotland Lecture 24 April 2018 from 6:30pm

The inaugural entry in The History Scotland Lectures was a debate between Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow) and Professor Christopher Whatley (University of Dundee) on ‘Who were the Jacobites and what did they want for Scotland?’. Professors Whatley and Pittock are two of Scotland’s leading experts on the 18th century, and in this debate

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Culture In Scotland – Who Is Missing? 24 March 2018, Verdant Works

Imagination: Scotland’s Festival of Ideas: Culture in Challenging Times Spring/Summer Talks Season Culture In Scotland – Who Is Missing? Come and join us in the first of a series of discussions undertaken by Imagination: Scotland’s Festival of Ideas looking at culture in constraining, challenging times. This event examines who and what is missing from culture

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