Department of History
Research
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Research Profile
The research profile of the History Department at Stirling University is wide-ranging, and continues to expand with a host of new publications, new staff, and new projects underway. The work of historians at Stirling is well represented in national and international journals, in libraries and bookstores, at academic conferences around the world, and in the media. Historians at Stirling are usually engaged in multiple research projects: writing new books, preparing papers, convening seminars, tracking down primary sources, reviewing other people's work, and so on. They continue to dig up new evidence, fashion new arguments, and challenge longstanding views across a wide array of time and space.
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A sample of recent staff publications are detailed in these images. |
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Individual output can be found on the relevant Staff Information pages. |
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Some historians in recent publications have concentrated on particular individuals and flashpoints in history, such as William E. Gladstone or Robert the Bruce, and the revolutions in Russia and Ireland at the start of the twentieth century or in America and France at the end of the eighteenth century. Others have explored continuities and changes in the evolution of nations, institutions and regions - such as labour and politics in modern Scotland, slavery in West Africa, the British Treasury, or the colonisation of America. A sample of recent publications are detailed above, and individual output can be found on the relevant Staff Information pages. To give you a sense of the kind of ongoing research we do, each season one colleague is invited to write up a short diary of their recent activity...
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| Jacqueline Jenkinson in Autumn 2008 |  |
In addition to the independent or collaborative work undertaken by historians at Stirling, the History Department hosts several Research Seminars each semester, and supports specialist Research Centres (see below for more details).
Research Seminars
Each semester, the History Department hosts a number of seminars at which experts present formal research papers in history (or a history-related discipline, such as archaeology or postcolonial studies). Convenors aim to bring in a range of topics over the course of the year, and in recent semesters speakers have enlightened us on warfare in colonial North America, Scottish railway disasters, Napoleonic imperialism, Russian secret police, and seventeenth-century West African trading. The latest programme available is listed here. The presentations are conducted in a convivial atmosphere, and usually followed by an informal question-and-answer session with refreshments. Postgraduate students and final year undergraduates (where appropriate) are encouraged to attend and participate.
Research Centre
One specialist research centre falls under the aegis of the History Department, which encourage a range of research projects within specific subfields of the discipline. This research centre has allowed Stirling staff, in conjunction with external funding bodies and outside specialists, to develop high quality scholarship over a significant period of time. Click below for further information on:
