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MISS CHLOE ROSS

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E-mail: r07cr9@abdn.ac.uk
Address: Chloe Ross
PhD candidate History
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Humanity Manse
19 College Bounds
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3NR

chloe.ross@abdn.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Late nineteenth / twentieth century history of the labour, Socialist and trade-union movement in Scotland and Ireland, with particular reference to the transnational figure of James Connolly.

Calls for land reform and the Crofter's War in the Scottish Highlands.

The labour movement in nineteenth / twentieth century Europe in general.

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Current Research

I am currently in the closing stages of completing my PhD in History at the University of Aberdeen: James Connolly and the Internationalisation of the Scottish and Irish Labour Movements.

The thesis primarily examines comparatives, links, and particularly 'transnational individuals' through the Scottish born, Irish Socialist and Labour Leader, James Connolly in relation to the labour movements of Scotland and Ireland during this specific time period.

The research especially attempts to challenge traditional historiographical perceptions of the labour movement in Scotland and Ireland: the domination of West-Central Scotland, and in Ireland the view of Labour as simply a footnote to the Nationalist movement. Instead of viewing Connolly and his activities in the Scottish and Irish Labour Movements in that of a domestic or provincial context, my thesis argues that Connolly was an important current in European Marxist Internationalism.

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Research Grants

Carnegie Bursary: June 2011: Modern British History Conference (Dundee University)

University of Aberdeen, Targeted Doctoral Scholarship: 2009-2012: Award of tuition fees and maintenance for PhD in History.

University of Aberdeen, College of Arts and Social Sciences: 2008-2009: Award of tuition fees for MLitt in Modern Historical Studies.

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Teaching Responsibilities

 

2012: Department of History, University of Aberdeen: HI 1022: Europe in the 20th Century.

2012 & 2013: Department of History, University of Aberdeen: HI 2520: Empire in the Long 19th Century.

2011 & 2013: Department of History, University of Aberdeen: HI 1522: An Introduction to Scottish History.

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Conferences and Research Papers

March 2013: Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution: The Cause of Labour, 1913 and Beyond (University College Cork): 'Scottish Responses to the 1913 Dublin Lock-out and the 1916 Easter Rising'.

November 2012: Postgraduate Seminar Series (Queens University Belfast): ‘Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and transnational agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland’.

November 2012: History Postgraduate Seminar (Aberdeen University):'Eric Hobsbawm: The Marxist Historian with a Global Reach.'

November 2012: University of Aberdeen - Trinity College Dublin: Scotland, Ireland and Empire: Joint Postgraduate Symposium (Burn, Edzell): 'James Connolly: The emergence of a Socialist, Edinburgh (1868-1896)'.

May 2012: St Andrews - Aberdeen University History Postgraduate Conference (Aberdeen University): ‘James Connolly: The emergence of a Socialist, Edinburgh (1868-1896)'.

May 2012: Joint event: History Lab Plus and the Royal Historical Society (University of London): ‘Becoming an Historian: Workshop and Lunch’.

April 2012: European Social Science History Conference (Glasgow): ‘Land, Labour and Nationalism: James Connolly and transnational agitation in 1890s Scotland and Ireland’.

March 2012: Early Modern Symposium (Aberdeen University): Attended.

December 2011: History Postgraduate Seminar (Aberdeen University): ‘James Connolly's Edinburgh Years: the serving of a Socialist apprenticeship (1868-1896)'.

October 2011: ‘Civil and Uncivil Society History Seminar Series’ (Glasgow Caledonian University): ‘Trade-unionism and labour radicalism in Edinburgh (1880-1900)’.

July 2011: Moving Forward Conference (Aberdeen University): Attended.

June 2011: Modern British History Conference (Dundee University): ‘Aberdeen was more Red than Glasgow.’ Working-class radicalism in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland, 1880-1920.

May 2011: St Andrews - Aberdeen University History Postgraduate Conference (St Andrews University): ‘The origins of May Day and the Eight-Hour Movement.’

March 2011: History Postgraduate Seminar (Aberdeen University): ‘The origins of May Day and the Eight-Hour Movement.’

July 2010: Moving Forward Conference (Aberdeen University): ‘Aberdeen was more Red than Glasgow.’ Working-class radicalism in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland, 1880-1920.

May 2010: Aberdeen - St Andrews University History Postgraduate Conference (Aberdeen University): ‘Aberdeen was more Red than Glasgow.’ Working-class radicalism in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland, 1880-1920.

April 2010: History Postgraduate Seminar (Aberdeen University): ‘Aberdeen was more Red than Glasgow.’ Working-class radicalism in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland, 1880-1920.

 

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Publications

Book Reviews

Charlie McGuire, Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland.
(Cork: Cork University Press, 2008), Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Reviews Section (2013)

Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson, eds.,James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author, International Review of Scottish Studies, Vol. 35. (2010).

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