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Call for papers for upcoming online conference
Colonial Connections: North East Scotland's Colonial Past, 1700-1840
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Robert Frost elected as a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
We are pleased to announce that Professor Robert Frost has been elected as a foreign member of the Polish Academy of the Arts and Sciences (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, the equivalent of the British Academy). The Academy was founded in 1872 in the Austrian partition, but rapidly became the recognised national...
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Call for applications: John Robb Bursary
The John Robb Bursary is a specific grant available to students at Aberdeen University with a connection to Aberdeen. These grants can be applied for at any stage of the course and are available for undergraduate and postgraduate study. Recent grants have been for £500 per year with continuation provided...
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Professor Karin Friedrich elected chair of the German History Society in the UK
Professor Karin Friedrich has been elected Chair of the German History Society in the UK which promotes the study of the history of Germany and the German-speaking world in its broadest global context. It promotes collaboration with historians of Germany across the world and welcomes the engagement of non-academics, teachers,...
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Professor Marjory Harper awarded the Royal Historical Society's Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational
We are pleased to annouce that Professor Marjory Harper has won the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching. In their citation the judges write: "Marjory’s work spans over two decades and was praise because of her commitment to supporting others’ learning and progression. However, the adjudicators are particularly...
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PGT Dissertation Prize 2020 announced
The Development Trust is funding a prize of £100 for the best postgraduate taught (MLitt) dissertation in History for the 2019-2020 cohort of students who are in one of our four History programmes: MLitt in Modern History, MLitt in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, MLitt in Scandinavian Studies and MLitt...
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Bringing Aberdeen's Burgh Records to life through song
Characters, events and stories contained with Aberdeen's unique town records was enjoyed by everyone.
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Professor Robert Frost confirmed as a New Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
New Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows announced Professor Frost’s research interests lie in the history of eastern Europe from the fourteenth to the ninteenth centuries; the history of Scandinavia, in particular the history of Sweden, and in the history of warfare. He has held the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at Aberdeen...
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PhD student Jennifer Hemphill jointly awarded the Peter Foote Bursary
Congratulations to Scandinavian Studies PhD student Jennifer Hemphill, who was recently jointly awarded the Peter Foote Bursary from the Viking Society for Northern Research (https://www.vsnr.org/peter-foote-bursary/) for her ERASMUS stay in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Professor Thomas Weber discusses earliest origins of Hitler's anti-Semitism
Professor Thomas Weber featured in a number of German newspapers like Landeszeitung.de, Hannoversche Allgemeine and Kieler Nachrichten on Holocaust Memorial Day where he discussed new evidence of the earliest origins of Hitler’s anti-Semitism.