They Think It’s All óðal! : Understanding Land Inheritance for Rulers and Their Subjects in “Orkneyinga Saga”
T.C. Fairfax
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The Baltic and North Sea Region in Scottish Burgh and Notarial Records, 1500-1700 (Part One)
Thomas Brochard
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‘The Question Now Standeth Betweene the Two Nations’: English and Scottish Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century Spitsbergen
Joseph Wagner
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Petri Talvitie and Juha-Matti Granqvist (eds), “Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland”, (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021). ISBN: 9789523690387
Jack Abernethy
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Lisa Hellman, Hanna Hodacs, Aryo Makko and Steve Murdoch (eds), “Connected Oceans: A Festschrift to Leos Müller”, (Lund: Universus Press, 2022). ISBN: 9789187439766
David Worthington
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Richard J. Blakemore and James Davey (eds), “The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain”, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020). ISBN 9789463721301
Steve Murdoch
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Northern Maccabees: The Speech of Ralph Nowell, Bishop of Orkney, at the Battle of the Standard, 1138
Jesse Patrick Harrington
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Scottish Involvement in an Anglo-Dutch Army in Danish Service: Reassessing the ‘English’ Expedition of Sir Charles Morgan, 1627-9
Jack Abernethy
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‘Roi d’Angleterre’ and ‘Le Pretendant’: A Cultural Semiotic Approach to the Use of Titles by Swedish Diplomats, 1715-17
Emma J. Forsberg
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The History of the North of Scotland Before 1945: As Told By Surfers
Matthew L. McDowell
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Book Review – Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom, by Adrián Maldonado
Sophia Kniaz
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Book Review – Henry Sinclair Casebook, by Vicki Hild
Rachel Meredith Davis
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Book Review – Triumphal Entries and Festivals in Early Modern Scotland: Performing Spaces, by Giovanna Guidicini
Kevin Hall
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Book Review – Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe, edited by Roberta Anderson and Charlotte Backerra
Beth Cowen
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Book Review – The First British Army, 1624-1628: the Army of the Duke of Buckingham, by Laurence Spring
Jack Abernethy
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Book Review – Från dansk krigstjänst 1848–1849: Gustaf Envalls dagbok och Carl Fredrik Wilhelm Gripenbergs berättelse, edited by Lars Ericson Wolke
Natalie M. Smith
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Why Are There Very Few Scandinavian Place-names in Ireland?
Peter J. Church
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Evangelists of Stone: Chapels within Landscapes of Conversion in Viking Age and Late Norse Shetland
Scott McCreadie
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Networks of Recruitment: Fiscal-Military Operations to Contract Foreign Soldiers for Sweden, 1605-1610
Jaakko Björklund and Sebastian Schiavone
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Scots and Scandinavia as Seen through Alba Amicorum, 1540s – 1720s
Thomas Brochard
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A ‘Project was Contrived and Carryed on with Great Secrecy’: International Irish Jacobite Networks and the Madagascar Project, 1718-1723
Harry M. Lewis
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Alexander Ormiston Curle and the Archaeology of Caithness: An Evaluation
Andrew Conlon
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Book Review – Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War, by Mary Elizabeth Ailes.
Kathrin Zickermann
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Whence and Whither, Óláfr? A Short Conjecture about the Location of ‘Laithlind’
Dirk H. Steinforth
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Private Women and Public Men? A Critique of the Gendered Dichotomy of the Viking Age
Tara Athanasiou
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Three Scots Tombs in Riga
Kelsey Jackson Williams
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Book Review – The Runic Inscriptions of the Isle of Man, by Michael P. Barnes
David N. Parsons
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Book Review – The Vikings in Islay: The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History, by Alan Macniven
Hannah Burrows
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Book Review – Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century, by Mairi Stewart
John A. Burnett
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Recovery of Human Remains at St Taran’s and St Keith’s Chapel, Taransay, Western Isles
Martin Cook and Mike Roy, with contributions by Dawn McLaren, Ann MacSween, and Kath McSweeney
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Excavation at St Ola’s Chapel, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands
Martin Cook and Mike Roy, with contributions by Rob Engl, Dawn McLaren, Fraser Hunter, Melissa Melikian, and Paul Sharman
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The Unst Lay; Ancient Verse, or the Earliest Shetland Dialect Poem?
Brian Smith
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Anna of Denmark and the Politics of Religious Identity in Jacobean Scotland and England, c. 1592-1619
Jemma Field
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‘Bereft of all Human Help?’: Scottish Widows during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Steve Murdoch and Kathrin Zickermann
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Book Review – Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape, by Carolyn Anderson and Christopher Fleet
Maria Gussarsson
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Book Review – Shetland Documents, 1612-1637, edited by John H. Ballantyne, with contributions by Brian Smith
Kelsey Jackson Williams
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Negotiating Contested Landscapes: The Lupin Controversy in Iceland
Anna Kuprian
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Hunting Hogbacks: Excavations and Surveys at Dalserf, South Lanarkshire, and Luss, Argyll & Bute
Elizabeth Pierce and Alastair Becket
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The Early Stewart Kings, the Lordship of the Isles, and Ireland, c.1371-c.1433
Simon Egan
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Shetland’s Norse Past and Scottish Present in the Early Eighteenth Century
Linda Riddell
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Book Review – Viking Law and Order: Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North, by Alexandra Sanmark
Barbara Crawford
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Book Review – Kings and Warriors in Early North-West Europe, edited by Jan Erik Rekdal and Charles Doherty
Nicholas Evans
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Identities and Contacts: Scots and their Relations with Scandinavia, 1500-1700
Thomas Brochard
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The Scandinavian Service of British Isles Musicians ca. 1520-1650
Alexia Grosjean
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‘Medic!’: An Insight into Scottish Field Surgeons, Physicians, and Medical Provision during the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648
Steve Murdoch
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Joachim Frederik von Bassen: A Danish Scholar in Restoration Scotland
Kelsey Jackson-Williams
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Book Review – The Rivals: Montrose and Argyll and the Struggle for Scotland, by Murdo Fraser
Andrew Lind
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The Controlled Decline of Viking-Ruled Dorestad
Christian Cooijmans
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Some Þing To Talk About: Assemblies in the Íslendingasögur
Hannah Burrows
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Drummer Major James Spens: Letters from a Common Soldier Abroad, 1617-1632
Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, and Siobhan Talbott
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The Network of James Garden of Aberdeen and North-eastern Scottish Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Kelsey Jackson-Williams
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Political change and cultural reconstruction of the past in Shetland
Atina Nihtinen
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Book Review – The Dream of the North: A Cultural History to 1920, by Peter Fjågesund
Lisa Collinson
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Book Review – Across the German Sea. Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region, by Kathrin Zickermann
Leos Müller
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Book Review – Back to Caledonia: Scottish Return Migration from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Mario Varricchio
Piotr Potocki
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The Meigle Stones: A Biographical Overview
Mark A. Hall
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The Reception of Bridget of Sweden in Late Medieval Scottish Statecraft: 1441-61
Katherine Basanti
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‘The thing is grounded on story’: The Danes and Medieval English Memory
Daniel Wollenberg
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Book Review – Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, by Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean.
Björn Asker
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Book Review – The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz and Stuart Jenks
Heiko Droste
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Book Review – Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200, edited by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Timothy Bolton
Andrew Jennings
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Book Review – Naught but Trouble – The Hays in Yell 1755-1824, edited by John Ballantyne
Silke Reeploeg
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The Scots and Early Modern Scandinavia: A 21st Century Review
Steve Murdoch
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The Control of Trade in Scotland during the Reigns of James VI and Charles I
Claire McLoughlin
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‘Borgs’, Boats and the Beginnings of Islay’s Medieval Parish Network
Alan Macniven
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Scottish Merchant Families in the Early Modern Period
Kathrin Zickermann
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North Atlantic Drift: The Scandinavian Dimension in Modern Scottish Literature
Michael Stachura
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Book Review – Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16^th-18^th Centuries: The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group, by Peter Paul Bajer
Anna Kalinowska
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Book Review – Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1555; 1631-1648, edited by Alan R. MacDonald and Mary Verschuur
Claire McLoughlin
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Book Review – Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture: Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century, by Daniel Riches
Björn Nordgren
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Book Review – The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe: Vikings and Celts, edited by James Muldoon
Alexandra Sanmark
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