Dr Marjory Harper
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Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272202 |
| 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 |
Research Interests
Dr Harper's research is primarily in the area of Scottish emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly to Canada.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
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.
Selected Publications
Emigrant Homecomings. The Return Movement of Emigrants 1600-2000 edited by Marjory Harper (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. xi 276. ISBN 0-7190-7070-8
Adventurers and Exiles. The Great Scottish Exodus, 1790-1914 (London: Profile, 2003)
Scotland and the Americas, c.1680-1939. Scottish History Society, 2002 [co-edited with Allan Macinnes and Linda Fryer, Aberdeen]- Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia, c. 1700-1990 Halifax, NS and Edinburgh: John Donald, 1999. [edited with M.E. Vance]
- 'Migration and Settlement' in Andrew Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3: the nineteenth century. Oxford: OUP, 1999.
Emigration from Scotland between the wars: opportunity or exile? Manchester: MUP, 1998.
Through Canada with a Kodak, by the Countess of Aberdeen (Edinburgh, 1893), new edition, with introduction by Marjory Harper Toronto: UP, 1994.- Emigration from North East Scotland, vol. 1, Willing Exiles. Aberdeen: AUP, 1988. Emigration from North East Scotland, vol. 2, Beyond the Broad Atlantic. Aberdeen: AUP, 1988.