Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History

Hammond, Matthew

doi:10.1353/shr.2006.0014

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“…28 Other work has considerable potential to contribute to this discussion: the debate amongst medievalists on the significance of ethnic identities during the period where Scotland creates itself as a nation is surely worthy of some gender analysis, while new research on relationships between Scots slave owners and their children with slave women opens up space for discussions around being a black Scot. 29 As multiculturalism becomes central to understanding modern Scotland, perhaps it is also time to reflect more deeply on the ways that different cultures shaped Scotland's past, unpicking the intersection between gender, race, ethnicity, class and the many other facets of identity, something beginning to happen through the use of oral histories amongst migrant groups in Scotland during the twentieth century. 30…”

Section: Empire Imperialism and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

The State of Scottish History: Gender

Barclay¹,

Cheadle²,

Gordon³

2013

The Scottish Historical Review

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In Scotland, the exploitation of gender history's potential to enact a fundamental paradigm shift in historical enquiry is a relatively recent endeavour. In 1990, the paucity of printed scholarship on women was such that in their pioneering collection of essays on the gendered division of labour in industrialising Scotland, Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach decried the 'enormous disjuncture between research and interest on the one hand and published material on the other'. 1 Within medieval and early modern scholarship, the situation was similarly bleak, in 1995 Elizabeth Ewan declaring starkly 'we still know little about early Scottish women'. 2 Approximately twenty years later, the picture is dramatically altered, with an emerging consciousness that gender history in Scotland is reaching maturity. The past two decades have witnessed the gradual accumulation of a corpus of wide-ranging and innovative research, exploring the material realities and discursive contexts of Scots women and men's lives across all time periods. Burgeoning research communities have been facilitated by the development of an institutional and committee-level infrastructure, with in 1995 the formation of the Scottish Women's History Network, now Women's History Scotland, and in 2008 the establishment of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow, currently hosting the prestigious international journal Gender and History. In addition, two new reference works, Gender in Scottish History since 1700 and a Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, both published in 2006, are fulfilling a valuable synthesising role and bringing the arguments and concerns of gender history to a wider audience. 3 The objective of this article is to provide a useful synthesis of recent research for those interested in employing gender as a category of historical analysis, focusing on the key themes of politics, imperialism, work, family life, sexuality, literature and religion. By no means exhaustive, it aspires to highlight the subject matter within these themes that appears to

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Section: Empire Imperialism and Racementioning

confidence: 99%