ANGLO-SCOTTISH RELATIONS 1603-1914

A symposium organised by the
British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh
to be held at:
The British Academy, London

17-18 September 2003

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 17 September, 2003

13:45 - 14:00

Greetings and Introduction

 

 

 

SESSION I

 

 

14:00 - 14:30

Professor Keith Brown, FRSE, University of St Andrews

 

A Blessed Union: Anglo-Scottish Relations before the Covenant

 

 

14:30 - 15:00

Professor John Morrill, FBA, University of Cambridge

 

The English, the Scots and the Dilemmas of Union 1638-1654

 

 

Chair:

Lord Runciman, PBA, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

 

 

Discussants:

Dr Roger Mason, University of St Andrews

 

Professor Ted Cowan, University of Glasgow

 

 

15:00 - 15:30

Discussion and questions

 

 

15:30 - 16:00

Break

 

 

 

SESSION II

 

 

16:00 - 16:30

Dr Clare Jackson, University of Cambridge

 

Judicial Torture and Liberties of the Subject in Anglo-Scottish Relations 1660-1690

 

 

16:30 - 17:00

Professor Chris Whatley, FRSE, University of Dundee

 

Taking Stock: Scotland at the End of the Regnal Union

 

 

Chair

Professor W.A. Speck, University of Leeds

 

 

Discussants

Dr John Young, University of Strathclyde

 

Dr Paul Seaward, History of Parliament, London

 

 

17:00 - 17:30

Discussion and questions

Thursday 18 September

 

SESSION III

 

 

09:15 - 09:45

Dr John Ford, University of Cambridge

 

The Law of the Sea and the Two Unions

 

 

09:45 - 10:15

Professor Paul Langford, FBA, University of Oxford

 

South Britons' Reception of North Britons, 1707-1820

 

 

Chair

Professor Allan MacInnes, University of Aberdeen

 

 

Discussant

Dr John Robertson, University of Oxford

 

 

10:15 - 10:45

Discussion and questions

 

 

10:45 - 11:15

Break

 

 

 

SESSION IV

 

 

11:15 - 11:45

Dr Colin Kidd, FRSE, University of Glasgow

 

Eighteenth-century Scotland and the Three Unions

 

 

11.45 - 12.15

Dr Robert Harris, University of Dundee

 

Scottish-English Connections in British Radical Politics during the 1790s

 

 

Chair

Professor Hamish Fraser, University of Strathclyde

 

 

Discussant

Dr. Ian McBride, King's College, London

 

 

12:15 - 12:45

Discussion and questions

 

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

SESSION V

 

 

14:00- 14:30

Professor Tom Devine, FBA, FRSE, University of Aberdeen

 

Empire and the Crisis of the Scottish Elite, 1680-1850

 

 

14:30 - 15:00

Professor Rosemary Ashton, FBA, University College, London

 

Anglo-Scottish Relations: the Carlyles in London

 

 

15:00 - 15:10

Chair

 

 

15:10 - 15:40

Dr Iain C. Hutchison, University of Stirling

 

Anglo-Scottish Political Relations in the 19th Century

 

 

Chair

Professor Martin Daunton, FBA, University of Cambridge

 

 

Discussant

Professor Keith Robbins, FRSE, University of Wales

 

 

15:40 - 16:20

Discussion

 

 

16:20 - 16:30

Winding up

Organising Committee

Professor Christopher Smout, FBA, FRSE, Historiographer Royal in Scotland
&
Professor David Cannadine, FBA, Director, Institute of Historical Research

For further information and to register for this part of the conference please contact Angela Pusey at the British Academy on 020 7969 5264 or at lectures@britac.ac.uk