Economic & Social History Society of Scotland
Scotland in Motion
Provisional Programme
Friday 6 May 2011
9.00am Registration and coffee
9.45am Introduction and Welcome: Pat Whatley, Chair, ESHSS
10.00am Plenary
Professor Christopher Harvie
„Getting where? Scotland as low-carbon transport pioneer, or Europe‟s
Greater Springfield?‟
Chair: Professor Bob Morris
10.45am Panel 1 – Challenging conventional practices and perceptions in
modern Scottish Society
Dr Alastair Durie – Sundays and Travel, c.1800-2000
Dr John McGregor – The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway and Sunday
Travel
Professor Kenneth MacKinnon – A Language on the Move:
Geographical mobility of Gaelic speakers in contemporary Scottish
society
Chair: To be confirmed
12.15pm ESHSS AGM
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Panel 2A – Industrial Decline in post-WW2 Scotland
Dr Alison Gilmour - A clash of cultures? Exploring narratives of
change, conflict and co-operation during industrial restructuring: the
case of Linwood car factory
Catriona Louise Macdonald – West Lothian – a county on the Move?
David Bradley – „Make Way for Steel‟: Representations of the Scottish
Steel Industry in Film
Dr Duncan-Philip Connors – The Failure of Management to Arrest the
Decline of Scott Lithgow Shipbuilders, 1960-1987
Chair: To be confirmed
Panel 2B – Case studies in societal change
David Taylor – Absconding Servants
Dr David Steel – Gatehouse of Fleet, the Making of a Planned Town
Alison McCall – The movement of nurses into and out of Victorian
Scotland
Allan Kennedy – “Perverse and Obstinat Offenders”: Bandits and
Banditry in the Scottish Highlands, 1660-1688
Chair: Dr Siobhan Talbott
[A ten-minute comfort break will be accommodated at 2.25pm.]
3.30pm Coffee
4.00pm Plenary
Professor Charles McKean
„A kind of bounding motion.‟ Progress and Regress: The First Tay
Bridge and its Enquiry
Chair: Patricia Whatley
5.00pm „Glasgow in Motion: A Walk on the Clyde Side‟
An historical walk along the river escorted and narrated by Dr Ronnie
Scott. Places limited – advance booking required.
7.30pm Conference dinner
Booking required – places limited
Saturday 7 May 2011
9.00am Late registrations
9.30am Panel 3A – Scottish maritime networks
Andrew Muirhead – From Glasgow to New York in the later 19th
century: some passengers‟ experiences
Mike Macdonald – The Orkney Islands: Shipping, Piers and Economic
Development in a Remote District, 1945-1980
Suzanne Rigg – Remitting the profits of the fur trade
Chair: To be confirmed
Panel 3B – Patterns of Migration in the eighteenth century
Leslie Jenkins – The Forgotten Migration: Scots to Europe after the
Union of 1707
Dr Siobhan Talbott – Creating the Union: British movement at home in
the early modern period
Sonia Baker – Moving around the 'small' world of the later eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries: Scots, the West Indies and beyond.
Chair: To be confirmed
11.00am Coffee
11.30am Plenary
Dr Trevor Griffiths
„All the Actual Movements of Real Life‟: Scotland‟s Early
Engagement with the Motion Picture, 1896-1914.
Chair: To be confirmed
12.15pm Lunch
1.15pm Panel 4A – Displaced identities and professions
Alison Turnbull – Glasgow‟s War and Masculine Identities in the
Reserved Occupations, 1939-1945: Retrieving the Regional
Experiences of Glasgow‟s Wartime Workers
Chris Langley – Distressed strangers: Parish responses to war refugees,
1648-1658
Derek Janes – Smugglers to Surgeons: Changes in Society reflected by
the owners of Gunsgreen House, Eyemouth, c.1750-1850 and their
associates
Chair: To be confirmed
Panel 4B – Reconfiguring the gendered relationship
Andrea Thomson – „A More Precarious Institution‟?: Marriage and
Marital Breakdown in 1970s Scotland
Helen Kay – 'Women walking and their claim for equal citizenship in
Scotland, 1909-2009'
Eilidh Macrae – Physical recreation throughout the female life-cycle in
Scotland, 1930-1960
Chair: Dr Katie Barclay
2.45pm Coffee
3.15pm Panel 5 – Scotland, an international nation
Dr Lesley Orr – At home in the Empire: „Bringing Canada to Scotland
and Scotland to Canada‟ – Visitors, tours and representations in the
1930s
Meagan Butler – The Legal Definition of Cruelty: a comparative study
of separation law in nineteenth-century United States and Scotland
Professor Catriona M M Macdonald – A Scottish Cultural Diaspora?:
Ways of understanding communication, migration and culture in the
twentieth century
Chair: To be confirmed
4.45pm Closing remarks: Pat Whatley, Convener of the Economic & Social
History Society of Scotland
5.00pm End of Conference