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History
by School of Humanities
History has been studied at Glasgow since 1897. Today, we have world-leading expertise in a diverse range of subjects from war studies and the history of business, to gender history and the history of medicine. Our research interests range across geographical area as well as time and topic, with expertise in American history and culture, for example, as well as in medieval Europe.
Episodes
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Muscular Internationalism: French civil society activism and the quest for peace
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Peter Jackson. September 2014 - Muscular internationalism: French Civil society activism and the quest for peace and security, 1890-1919.
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Speaking the Self: Women Narrating Liberation in Post-war Britain
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Lynn Abrams. May 2014.
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Secularisation and civilisation: can history show if society is good without god
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Callum Brown. Historians have long spoken about “civilisation” as something rooted in a religious morality. Many of them have feared its decline with the growth of atheism. In this lecture, Callum Brown explores the nature of this argument, and places it in the context…
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Rethinking Scottish Origins
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Dauvit Broun. Scotland's beginnings are normally explained in terms of how the kingdom emerged in the early middle ages. A different approach is taken to Scottish origins in this lecture. Instead of asking how the kingdom expanded to its current borders, the first…
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I wanted to prove myself to the men: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Professor Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Chair of History and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College and is a research associate of the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. In this guest lecture Professor Lower discusses the role women played in the Nazi regime.
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Wallace Uprising: uncovering new evidence
Professor Dauvit Broun speaking about the 1297 Wallace uprising
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History has been studied at Glasgow since 1897. Today, we have world-leading expertise in a diverse range of subjects from war studies and the history of business, to gender history and the history of medicine. Our research interests range across geographical area as well as time and topic, with expertise in American history and culture, for example, as well as in medieval Europe.
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