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Organisation profile
The Centre for History is a key component of the University of the Highlands and Islands and is internationally renowned for its teaching and research in Highland, Scottish and wider-world history. In late 2014, it came fifth in Scotland ('a new entry') in The Guardian league table of top UK university departments at which to study History while, in its first entry to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), it was ranked joint eighth of all History submissions across the UK for 'Impact'.
The Centre, a part of the university's Humanities and Gaelic Subject Network and of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, continues to be based at Burghfield House in the cathedral town of Dornoch in Sutherland. Established in 2005, it has attracted external funding of more than £2 million, which has been invested in both teaching and research. UHI’s BA (Hons) Scottish History – launched in 2007 – was an early development, created by a Centre-led team and Centre staff are now in charge of the course’s delivery to a growing body of students.
Joint honours degrees such as History and Politics, launched in September 2009 and Scottish History and Archaeology, launched in September 2011. A BA (Hons) History has been available since September 2013, as are a series of joint degrees with other subject areas, nine in total as of 2014.
In addition to the undergraduate degrees, a fully online MLitt History of the Highlands and Islands was successfully launched in September 2011 and has attracted students in Australia, Canada, Kenya and Romania as well as across the Highlands and Islands, Scotland and the UK. This is one of several taught postgraduate degrees available for part-time and full-time-study by distance learning at the Centre.
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Profiles
Marjory Harper
- Centre for History - Visiting Professor and Senior Researcher
Person: Academic Research Active
Projects
UHI HSBI: UHI Hub for the Study of British Identities
MacPherson, J. & Lindfield-Ott, K.
Project: Research
Re-writing the rulebook of landownership: analysing and assessing the economics of community landownership
1/04/16 → 9/09/16
Project: Research
Research Output
Alexander Erskein und die schottischen Netzwerke in den Herzogtümern Bremen und Verden nach 1648
Zickermann, K., 2019, Friedensordnung und Machtpolitische Rivalitäten: Die schwedischen Besitzungen im europäischen Kontext 1648 bis 1721. Fiedler, B-C. (ed.). Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv, 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open Access
'Bereft of all Human Help?': Scottish Widows of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
Zickermann, K. & Murdoch, S., 30 May 2019, In : Northern Studies. 50, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Coastal History in Scotland
Worthington, D., Mar 2019, In : History Scotland . 19, 2, p. 90-98 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
Highland Book Prize longlisted
Hunter, Jim (Recipient), Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Nancy Lyman Roelker Award
Woodcock, Philippa (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Fireworks parties and waterborne pageantry
Philippa Woodcock (Speaker)
31 Mar 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Talk to ARCH (Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands), Dingwall
Jim Hunter (Speaker)
25 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Talk at Winter Words 2020, Pitlochry
Jim Hunter (Speaker)
15 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press / Media
Popular historian recognised with university title
20/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
HS2 of the Highlands: the amazing story of the Scots railway that never was
Iain James McPherson Robertson
17/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
'It's powerful, beautiful, heartfelt': Stars contribute to Arbroath project
3/04/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Student theses
Nuclear fission and social fusion: the impact of the Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment on Caithness, 1953-1966
Author: Ross, L. M., 4 Sep 2019Supervisor: MacPherson, J. (Supervisor), Kirk, N. (Supervisor) & McDonald, M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)
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Sport and Physical Education in the Northern Mainland Burghs of Scotland c. 1600-1800
Author: Cormack, W., 2 Dec 2016Supervisor: Worthington, D. (Supervisor), Durie, A. (Supervisor) & Ritchie, E. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)
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A Society in Transition: Badenoch, 1750-1800
Author: Taylor, D. V., 16 Jan 2015Supervisor: Worthington, D. (Supervisor), Harper, M. (Supervisor), Ritchie, E. (Supervisor) & Hunter, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)
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