Course summary

Here in the nation’s capital, Scottish history is taught by a strong and distinguished team, comprising six core academic staff members, plus a number of postdoctoral fellows and associated staff. The University of Edinburgh has offered the subject since establishing the prestigious Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography in 1901. The post is currently held by Professor Ewen Cameron. From the Middle Ages to the present day, we can offer expertise in all periods of study. Other members of staff have published extensively on topics including:

• Scottish politics in all periods

• late medieval kingship

• saints’ cults

• the witch-hunt and associated beliefs

• religious and intellectual change, particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

• the Scottish Enlightenment

• the Highlands, especially in the middle ages and the modern period

• Scotland’s external relations and involvement with empire