New perspectives on the Scottish Wars of Independence: Scotland and the governance of England in the thirteenth century A free conference marking the end of the ‘Breaking of Britain’ AHRC-funded project (see www.breakingofbritain.ac.uk for details). Friday 23 August Senate Room, Gilbert … Continue reading
Introductory Podcast In this podcast, project investigators Dauvit Broun, David Carpenter and Keith Stringer discuss the historical background to the Wars of Independence, the nature of cross-border society and the objectives of the Breaking of Britain project. William Wallace … Continue reading
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Border Society: States, Governance and People, c.1150–c.1300 Faraday Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm, Saturday 6 July 2013 A conference in association with the AHRC-project The Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence, 1216–1314 … Continue reading
The People of Medieval Scotland database was successfully launched by Michael Russell, MSP, on 5 September 2012 at the University of Glasgow. The database is an extension of the original database developed for the Paradox of Medieval Scotland project and … Continue reading
In an article entitled ‘English landlords were key to Bannockburn breakaway’ published in The Sunday Times Scotland on 5 August a garbled account is given of the May 2012 Feature of the Month. There are no ‘documents going into a … Continue reading
The National Records of Scotland (NRS) is shortly launching an exhibition at the Scottish Parliament, to show the 1300 letter from King Philip IV recently loaned to NRS by The National Archives, and the Lubeck letter, in the context of their … Continue reading
LAUNCH OF PEOPLE OF MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND 1093-1314 NEW ON-LINE LEARNING RESOURCE AND RESEARCH TOOL By Michael Russell MSP Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Scottish Government 6.30–8.30pm, Wednesday 5 September 2012 Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of … Continue reading
A new version of our PoMS database will go live the week of 20 August 2012. This will incorporate several updates, including a new faceted browser and the addition of material up to 1314. The new version will be officially launched on … Continue reading
The April FoM, written by our Principal Investigator, Professor Dauvit Broun, is now online! Read it here….
