Location
Parliament Hall, St Andrews
On the 14th of June the University of St Andrews will host a conference marking three hundred years since the appointment of General George Wade and the raising of the Highland Independent Companies. We are thrilled to announce our programme, and welcome all attendees. Please sign up via the Eventbrite link:
Programme:
10:00-11:00 – Plenary 1: Making the Highland Regiments – Professor Andrew MacKillop
11:15-12:45 – Panel 1: Contesting the Highlands in the Eighteenth Century
Dr Graeme Millen – Martial Minds and the Highland Challenge: Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay’s Memoirs as a Strategic Legacy of the Highland War, 1689–1691
Andrew Simpson – To “Instruct and teach in the way which [they] shall go”: Catholic education in the Highlands 1700-1780
Nicole Musson – From Duquesne to Keowee: Following the Highland Soldier in America through Scotland’s Newspapers, 1755-1765
12:45-13:45 – Lunch Break
13:45-15:15 – Panel 2: The View from the (Highland) Centre: Power and Agency in the Highlands and Islands since the Eighteenth Century
Dr Nicola Martin – Loyalty and Resistance: local agency in the eighteenth-century militarisation of the Highlands
Dr Jim MacPherson – Empire state of mind: challenging myths of ‘isolation’ and ‘centre-periphery’ in the Scottish Highlands
Mhairi Ferrier – ‘Unjust and unfair’: Highland responses to UK Government Decision Making 1970-2004
15:30-16:30 – Panel 3: North Britain: Highland Identity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Dr Derek Patrick – ‘This smartly-set-up body of men was recruited mainly in the Highlands’: The Scottish Yeomanry, Fincastle’s Horse and the Second Boer War
Luke Michael Ambrose – Flora MacLeod, Millicent Leveson-Gower, and the Rehabilitation of Highland Aristocratic Identity, 1870-1910
16:45-17:45 – Plenary 2: Scotland’s Military Identity – Professor Sir Hew Strachan