Join us for the first ever celebration of the life and work of Cupar-born early Scottish Science Fiction writer, Robert Duncan Milne in his hometown. Milne made a larger contribution to early Science Fiction than Robert Louis Stevenson or Arthur…
Our History lecturer, Dr Allan Kennedy, has teamed up with History Scotland magazine to host an exciting webinar series. Beginning in 2020 as a attempt to keep History fans engaged during lockdown, the webinar series proved so popular that History…
We are excited to announce that our Senior Lecturer in History, Dr Martine Van Ittersum, will be appearing in an upcoming radio series exploring the historical relationship between Scotland and the Low Countries. ‘Scotland the Low Countries’ is a two-part…
The Centre for Scottish Culture was delighted to learn that our History Lecturer, Dr Allan Kennedy, has been awarded the inaugural Birlinn Prize for Scottish Local History! The prize is awarded annually to the best paper published in the journal…
The Centre for Scottish Culture was delighted to learn that our PhD candidate, Sylvia Valentine, has recently succeeded in publishing some of her exciting research! Sylvia’s article, ‘Meet the vegetarian anti-vaxxers who led the smallpox inoculation backlash in Victorian Britain’,…
In this guest post, Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, tells us about his new book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). My book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh…
Our steering-committee member, Dr Allan Kennedy, has created a series of unique Scottish History quizzes. Intended initially to help keep people distracted and entertained during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, these quizzes have built up into a unique resource to test and…
The Centre for Scottish Culture has partnered with the University of Stirling for a major, three-year research project entitled ‘The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708: Government from Revolution to Union’. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Scottish Privy Council…