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Professor Marjory Harper

Professor of History

 

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272202/4473
E-mail: m.harper@abdn.ac.uk
Address: School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX.
Room: 211/HMA3

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Research Interests

Professor Harper's research is primarily in the area of Scottish emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly to Canada.

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Teaching Responsibilities

  • HI 1012 Scotland's New Horizons, c.1690-1820
  • HI 1511 Scotland and the Modern Age: The 1820s to the Present
  • HI 3035/3535 The Highlands and Islands, 1850-1950
  • HI 3031/3531 Emigrants and Immigrants
  • HI 4015 Special Subject I: The Scot in Canada
  • HI 5011 The Scottish and Irish Diaspora

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Recent Articles

  • David Ditchburn and Marjory Harper, "Aberdeen and the Outside World" in Aberdeen before 1800: A New History (2002), pp.377-407
  • "Abraham and Isaac Ride the Range: British Images of the American West" in Journal of the West, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp 8-15.

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Publications

  • Harper, MD. "Come to Corby", Article, 2013, Immigrants & Minorities, ISSN/ISBN: 0261-9288
  • Harper, MD. Scotland and New Zealand, Book, 2013
  • Harper, MD. "Everything is English": expectations and experiences of English migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1970, Chapter, 2012, The English in New Zealand
  • Harper, MD. Migration and the Media: Recruitment Propaganda and the BBC 1950-1970, Article, 2012, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, ISSN/ISBN: 0308-6534
  • Harper, MD. Scotland No More?, Book, 2012
  • Harper, MD. Scottish emigration in the twentieth century, Book, 2012
  • Harper, MD. 'Missions and Emigration/Colonization', Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2010, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, pp817 - 817
  • Harper, MD. Arctic Encounters, Paper, 2010
  • Harper, MD. & Hunter, J. Introduction to new series, Article, 2010, Northern Scotland, 1, pp1 - 2, ISSN/ISBN: 0306-5278
  • Harper, MD. & Hunter, J. Introduction to new series, Article, 2010, Northern Scotland, 1, pp1 - 2, ISSN/ISBN: 0306-5278
  • Harper, MD. & Constantine, S. Migration and Empire, Book, 2010
  • Harper, MD. The Persuaders, Article, 2010, History Scotland, 10, 4, ISSN/ISBN: 1475-5270
  • Harper, MD. Rhetoric and reality, Chapter, 2008, Canada and the British Empire, pp160 - 180
  • Harper, MD. 'The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair', 'Anne Drysdale', 'Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart', 'Annie Macpherson', 'Emma Stirling': 5 entries in E. Ewan, S. Innes and S. Reynolds (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women from the earliest times to 2004 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), Other contribution, 2006, Dictionary entries
  • Harper, MD. Entrepeneurs or Exiles? Snapshots of the Scots in Canada, Chapter, 2006, A Kingdom of the Mind. How the Scots helped make Canada, ed. P.Rider & H.McNabb, pp22 - 39
  • Harper, MD. & Evans, NJ. Socio-economic Dislocation and Inter-war Emigration to Canada and the United States: a Scottish Snapshot, Article, 2006, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 34, 4, pp529 - 552, ISSN/ISBN: 0308-6534
  • Harper, MD. Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movement of Emigrants, 1660-2000, Other contribution, 2005
  • Harper, MD. & Evans, NJ. The Scottish Emigration Database, Data set/Database, 2005
  • Harper, MD. 'Personal Contact is Worth a Ton of Text-Books', Article, 2004, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 32, 3, pp48 - 76, ISSN/ISBN: 0308-6534
  • Harper, MD. Crossing the Atlantic: Snapshots from the migration album, Chapter, 2004, In: Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America (ed. Messamore, B.J.) Ottawa University Press 2004, pp13 - 32
  • Harper, MD. Enticing the Emigrant: Canadian agents in Ireland and Scotland, c.1870-1920, Article, 2004, Scottish Historical Review, 83, pp41 - 58, ISSN/ISBN: 0036-9241
  • Harper, MD. Pains, perils and pastimes: The Emigrant Voyage in the Nineteenth Century, Chapter, 2004, In: MaritimeEmpires: British Maritime History in the Nineteenth Century (eds. Killingray, D.;Lincoln, M.; Rigby, N.) Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge 2004, pp159 - 172
  • Harper, MD. Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus, Book, 2003
  • Harper, MD. No English Need Apply? Saskatchewan's English Settlers, 1878-1914, Article, 2003, British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16, pp88 - 101, ISSN/ISBN: 0269-9222
  • Ditchburn, DM. & Harper, MD. Aberdeen and the Outside World, Chapter, 2002, In: Aberdeen 1100-1800: A New History (eds. Dennison, P.; Ditchburn, D.; Lynch, M.) Tuckwell Press 2002, pp377 - 407
  • Harper, MD. Enticing the Emigrant: Agency Activity in the Highlands, Article, 2002, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, LXII, ISSN/ISBN: 0958-5451
  • Harper, MD., MacInnes, AI. & Fryer, L. Scotland and the Americas, 1650-1939: A Documentary Source Book, Other contribution, 2002
  • Harper, MD. 'Highlands and Islands, emigration' and 'emigration, post-1750, excl. Highlands', two entries in M. Lynch (ed), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford, 2001), Other contribution, 2001, Dictionary entries
  • Harper, MD. Abraham and Isaac Ride the Range: British Images of the American West, Article, 2001, Journal of the West, 40, pp8 - 15, ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5169

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