Professor Marjory HARPER

Professor Marjory HARPER The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Chair in History work +44 (0)1224 272202 work +44 (0)1224 274473 pref m.harper@abdn.ac.uk pref 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

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Harper, M-AD (in press). '"Come to Corby": A Scottish Steel Town in the Heart of England'. Immigrants & Minorities.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2012.746817
• Harper, M-AD (2010). 'The Persuaders: Recruiting Scots for New Zealand'. History Scotland, vol 10, no. 4.
• Harper, M-AD & Hunter, J. (2010). 'Introduction to new series'. Northern Scotland, vol 1, pp. 1-2.
  [Online] DOI: 10.3366/nor.2010.0001
  [Online] AURA: Northern_Scotland_introduction.pdf
• Harper, M-AD & Evans, NJ. (2006). 'Socio-economic Dislocation and Inter-war Emigration to Canada and the United States: a Scottish Snapshot'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 34, no. 4, pp. 529-552.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/03086530600991456
• Harper, M-AD (2004). ''Personal Contact is Worth a Ton of Text-Books': Educational Tours of the Empire, 1926-39'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 48-76.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/0308653042000279669
• Harper, M-AD (2004). 'Enticing the Emigrant: Canadian agents in Ireland and Scotland, c.1870-1920'. Scottish Historical Review, vol 83, pp. 41-58.
• Harper, M-AD (2003). 'No English Need Apply? Saskatchewan's English Settlers, 1878-1914'. British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 16, pp. 88-101.
• Harper, M-AD (2002). 'Enticing the Emigrant: Agency Activity in the Highlands'. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol LXII.
• Harper, M-AD (2001). 'Abraham and Isaac Ride the Range: British Images of the American West'. Journal of the West, vol 40, pp. 8-15.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Harper, M-AD (2008). 'Rhetoric and reality: British migration to Canada 1867-1967'. P Buckner (ed.), in: Canada and the British Empire. The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 160-180.
• Harper, M-AD (2006). 'Entrepeneurs or Exiles? Snapshots of the Scots in Canada'. in: A Kingdom of the Mind. How the Scots helped make Canada, ed. P.Rider & H.McNabb. A Kingdom of the Mind. How the Scots helped make Canada, ed. P.Rider & H.McNabb, pp. 22-39.
• Harper, M-AD (2004). 'Crossing the Atlantic: Snapshots from the migration album'. in: In: Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America (ed. Messamore, B.J.) Ottawa University Press 2004. In: Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America (ed. Messamore, B.J.) Ottawa University Press 2004, pp. 13-32.
• Harper, M-AD (2004). 'Pains, perils and pastimes: The Emigrant Voyage in the Nineteenth Century'. in: In: MaritimeEmpires: British Maritime History in the Nineteenth Century (eds. Killingray, D.;Lincoln, M.; Rigby, N.) Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge 2004. In: MaritimeEmpires: British Maritime History in the Nineteenth Century (eds. Killingray, D.;Lincoln, M.; Rigby, N.) Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge 2004, pp. 159-172.
• Ditchburn, DM. & Harper, M-AD (2002). 'Aberdeen and the Outside World'. in: In: Aberdeen 1100-1800: A New History (eds. Dennison, P.; Ditchburn, D.; Lynch, M.) Tuckwell Press 2002. In: Aberdeen 1100-1800: A New History (eds. Dennison, P.; Ditchburn, D.; Lynch, M.) Tuckwell Press 2002, pp. 377-407.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Harper, M-AD (2010). ''Missions and Emigration/Colonization''. D Patte (ed.), in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 817-817.

Other Contributions

• Harper, M-AD (2006). ''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)'. in: Dictionary entries. Dictionary entries.
• Harper, M-AD (2001). ''Highlands and Islands, emigration' and 'emigration, post-1750, excl. Highlands', two entries in M. Lynch (ed), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford, 2001)'. in: Dictionary entries. Dictionary entries.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

• Harper, M-AD (2010). 'Arctic Encounters: Scots in the Hudson's Bay Company'. Paper presented at The 2010 RIIS Diaspora Conference, Guelph, Canada, 9/06/10 - 12/06/10,.

Books and Reports

Books

• Harper, M-AD (2012). 'Scotland No More?: The Scots who left Scotland in the twentieth century'. Luath Press, Edinburgh.
• Harper, M-AD & Constantine, S. (2010). 'Migration and Empire'. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Harper, M-AD (2003). 'Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus'. Unknown Publisher, Profile Publishing.

Other Contributions

• Harper, M-AD (2005). 'Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movement of Emigrants, 1660-2000'.
• Harper, M-AD, MacInnes, AI. & Fryer, L. (2002). 'Scotland and the Americas, 1650-1939: A Documentary Source Book'.

Non-textual Forms

Data Sets and Databases

• Harper, M-AD & Evans, NJ., (2005). 'The Scottish Emigration Database'. , 2005, Data set/Database.

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