A NEW HOME FOR SSNS!
Welcome to the Society’s new website. As the site develops we shall be adding a wide range of resources and wealth of information for both Society members and casual users. Though the site is still under construction, please continue to check back on our progress, and feel free to contact us with specific questions or requests for features!
RECENT NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
2013
13 April:
27 April:
27 April:
Spring:
Spring:
Autumn:
23 November:
27 April:
27 April:
Spring:
Spring:
Autumn:
23 November:
Day conference: Early Medieval Meigle; Meigle, Tayside.
Vikings in Scotland - A Presentation by Dr Alan Macniven & Dr Arne Kruse @ NMS
Midlands Viking Symposium - Connecting Islands
Publication of the Society’s Journal, Northern Studies (Vol. 44).
Publication of the Society’s Newsletter (#4).
Publication of the Society’s Newsletter (#5).
Day conference: Edinburgh (details to follow).
Vikings in Scotland - A Presentation by Dr Alan Macniven & Dr Arne Kruse @ NMS
Midlands Viking Symposium - Connecting Islands
Publication of the Society’s Journal, Northern Studies (Vol. 44).
Publication of the Society’s Newsletter (#4).
Publication of the Society’s Newsletter (#5).
Day conference: Edinburgh (details to follow).
2014
March/April:
Residential conference: Northern Ireland (TBC).
Our full calendar can be found here.
OF SPECIAL NOTE
Congratulations to 2012 Magnusson Prize Winner Claire McLoughlin!
for her paper
'The Control of Trade in Scotland
During the Reigns of James VI and Charles I'
For your diary...
April Day Conference: Early Medieval Meigle
Our next day conference is on Saturday, 13 April 2013 in Meigle. What better subject to explore than Early Medieval Meigle? Scheduled papers include Meigle's Pictish and Viking context, place-name evidence, Pictish ceremonies and sculptured stones, and there will be a guided visit to the remarkable collection of stones in Historic Scotland's Meigle Museum. Download the conference application form and schedule of abstracts here.
The Society’s latest conference publication, Historic Bute: Land and People, is now available. Edited by Anna Ritchie, well-illustrated and with much-appreciated support from contributors and funding bodies, it contains papers from the Society’s highly successful 2010 residential conference held on Bute. Please click the button below for each chapter and its author. eCommerce options for the purchase of this and earlier conference publications will be available soon. Until then, mail-in payment instructions are on the attached order form.
Historic Bute - Land and People
Chapter 1
From Goill to Gall-Ghàidheil: place-names and Scandinavian settlement in Bute
Gilbert Márkus - University of Glasgow
Chapter 2
Scandinavians in Strathclyde: multiculturalism, material culture and manufactured identities in the Viking Age
Courtney Buchanan - University of Glasgow
Chapter 3
The Norse in the West with particular reference to Bute
Barbara Crawford - University of St. Andrews
Chapter 4
Bute in the age of the sagas
Ted Cowan - University of Glasgow
Chapter 5
A casualty of war? The cult of Kentigern of Glasgow, Scottish patron saints and the Bruce/Comyn conflict
Tom Turpie - University of Edinburgh
Chapter 6
The Bute or Bannatyne Mazer – two different vessels
David Caldwell & George Dalgleish - National Museums Scotland
Chapter 7
Mazer? What’s a ‘mazer’? A history of the word
Molly Rorke - University of Glasgow
Chapter 8
Frontierland: towards an environmental history of Bute in the later Middle Ages
Richard Oram - University of Stirling
Chapter 9
Bute from Norse times to the Improvements: Some notes on landholdings and rural settlement patterns
Angus Hannah - BNHS
Chapter 10
‘An enormous expense enclosing and dividing’: Agricultural Improvement in eighteenth-century Bute
George Geddes - RCAHMS
Chapter 11
The Witches of Bute
Lizanne Henderson - University of Glasgow
From Goill to Gall-Ghàidheil: place-names and Scandinavian settlement in Bute
Gilbert Márkus - University of Glasgow
Chapter 2
Scandinavians in Strathclyde: multiculturalism, material culture and manufactured identities in the Viking Age
Courtney Buchanan - University of Glasgow
Chapter 3
The Norse in the West with particular reference to Bute
Barbara Crawford - University of St. Andrews
Chapter 4
Bute in the age of the sagas
Ted Cowan - University of Glasgow
Chapter 5
A casualty of war? The cult of Kentigern of Glasgow, Scottish patron saints and the Bruce/Comyn conflict
Tom Turpie - University of Edinburgh
Chapter 6
The Bute or Bannatyne Mazer – two different vessels
David Caldwell & George Dalgleish - National Museums Scotland
Chapter 7
Mazer? What’s a ‘mazer’? A history of the word
Molly Rorke - University of Glasgow
Chapter 8
Frontierland: towards an environmental history of Bute in the later Middle Ages
Richard Oram - University of Stirling
Chapter 9
Bute from Norse times to the Improvements: Some notes on landholdings and rural settlement patterns
Angus Hannah - BNHS
Chapter 10
‘An enormous expense enclosing and dividing’: Agricultural Improvement in eighteenth-century Bute
George Geddes - RCAHMS
Chapter 11
The Witches of Bute
Lizanne Henderson - University of Glasgow
Historic Bute:
Land and People
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