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2026
October
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'A Light in the Dark: Interpreting Walter Scott's Lighthouse Yacht Journal (1814)' and '"(A) natural desire in the human heart to connect the past with the future": Recovering the Later Literary Years of Susan Ferrier (1782-1854)'
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar All Welcome
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'T脷S: Pregnancy and Giving Birth in Ireland, c. 1950-2020'
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar All Welcome
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40 Years On: Aberdeen, Enlightenment and Global Legacies
-Join us for a landmark conference, marking forty years since the influential 1986 gathering that placed Aberdeen at the centre of Scottish Enlightenment studies. This special anniversary event revisits and re-evaluates that scholarship while exploring new perspectives on Aberdeen’s intellectual, cultural, and global impact. Through a series of roundtable discussions,...
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'The "Edinburgh University Coterie": Networks of Cultural Influence in the 1790s and 1800s'
-New Voices in Irish and Sottish Studies Online Seminar All Welcome
September
May
April
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Scottish Judges and Convict Transportation in the Eighteenth Century
-RIISS Postgraduate Seminar All Welcome
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Renaissance Esotericism and the 黑料网
-RIISS Seminar in collaboration with the Centre for Early Modern Studies. All welcome
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Transnational Troubles, 1968-1998
-RIISS workshop: The Troubled Island
March
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Jacobite Nations IV: Digitising the Jacobite World
-RIISS Workshop
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In Search of the Exiled Stuart Courts, 1689-1766
-Public Lecture sponsored by RIISS and the Jacobite Studies Trust. Booking required: In Search of the Exiled Stuart Courts, 1689-1766. Tickets, Friday, Mar 20 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm | Eventbrite Edward Corp is emeritus Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He is the world’s leading expert on the...
February
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What might AI mean for the Scots language?
-RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome
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The Invention of the Celt. Culture, Politics and Nationalism across the Atlantic Arc
-RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome
2025
October
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Lowland Improvement and Scotland's Last 'Gypsy' Executions, 1770-1800
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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'Frenchmen who chose ... to abandon their country': French 茅migr茅s in Dublin, 1789-1794
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
September
June
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RSE workshop on Scottish Literature
-10.30AM Discussion 1.30 PM Paper Panels Panel 1- Paula Sledinska Drama, Yas and Miwa Soto Translation and Globalisation Panel 2- Kate Mathis Gaelic Song Arianna Introna Disability Darryl Peers Queerness in Scottish Fiction 3.00 PM Break 3.30 PM Paper Panels Panel 3- Rodge Glass Jewish-Scottish Writing Linda Tym Energy Panel 4- Hongling Lyu and Pingting Zhang Scottish Literature in China Lorna MacBean Prisons Monika Szuba Animals
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Annual Conference
-As the tensions and contradictions between the global economic system and national affirmations of cultural and political identity come into sharp focus, the SSNCI annual conference seeks to establish how the polarity between universalism and locality was articulated and examined in nineteenth-century Ireland. Drawing inspiration from the work of Aberdeen...
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Ceangal / Connect
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On the 9th – 10th June the Consulate General of Ireland, the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the 黑料网 and Údarás na Gaeltachta will host a symposium at the 黑料网 bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil...
May
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Book Launch of Gordon Graham, David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers (Edinburgh University Press)
-Author meets Critics Gordon Graham in conversation with James Harris and Tamas Demeter
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Workshop: The Philosophy of James Beattie
-9.15: Welcome and Introductions 9.30-10.00: Bradford Bow, 'Beattie and the Aberdeen Philosophical Society' 10.00-10.30: Tamas Demeter, 'Beattie and Common Sense' 10.30-11.00: Douglas McDermid, 'Beattie and Scepticism' Coffee 11.15-11.45: Gordon Graham,'Beattie and Memory' 11.45-12.15: Botond Csuka, 'Beattie and Belles Lettres Lunch 1.30-2.00: Michael Brown, 'Beattie and Politics' 2.00-2.30: Fred Ablondi, 'Beattie and Religion' 2.30-3.00: Amit Aizenman, 'Beattie and Free Speech'
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Humean Chemistry
-The Inaugural James Beattie RIISSS Lecture
April
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Petitioning the Justiciary Court in Restoration Scotland
-Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
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'What bloody shits those Dundeans must be' (Lawrence of Arabia to Churchill, November 1922): Churchill's defeat in Dundee, 1922
-hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
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Linguistic Contact and Dialect Genesis and Evolution: 'Marginal' Scots Dialects
-Hybid Research Seminar, All Welcome
March
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Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
-Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
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'The sensibility of a poet and the sympathy of a friend': Literature in the Correspondence of Robert Burns and Frances Dunlop
Hybrid Research Seminar: All Welcome
February
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William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts
-Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
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Scott, Hogg and Espionage
-Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
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Public Lecture and Book Launch: (Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes's "The Lyon in Mourning" Manuscript
-The lecture will be followed by the launch of Leith Davis, Jacobitism adn Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025) This event is held in collaboration with the University Collections and the Freinds of Aberdeen Library.
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Writing Jacobitism Workshop
-The Third Annual Jacobite Nations Workshop
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The Drunken Irishman: Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature
-Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome
2024
November
October
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Rethinking Irish Rock Music, 1970-1985
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Semianr: All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Yen-Chi Wu
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Dr Yen-Chi Wu (Tunghai University) will be presenting the second paper in the 'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' webinar series.
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Irish Writers, the New Yorker, and the First-Reading Agreement, 1940-1980
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar: All Welcome NB: This is a lunchtime seminar
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New Voices Seminar: TBC
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Research Seminar: All Welcome
September
May
March
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'An Instant Affinity': The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974
-RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome Abstract: 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued...
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Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
February
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Crisis Management: The World of Irish Tories during the 1830s and 1840s
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
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Grave Charges: The Reaction to the Oscar Wilde and Hector Macdonald Scandals in the Scottish Press
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
2023
December
November
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Contextualizing William Mackay's Narrative of the Wreck of the Juno (1798)
-Hybrid Research Seminar All Welcome
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The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Clare Loughlin (黑料网) The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland
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The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Claire Loughlin for an online webinar.
October
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Supernatural Stories and Scott
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz's 'Reading Scotland' programme for the 2023-2024 academic year kicks off with a talk by Dr Anna Fancett, 黑料网, on Walter Scott's presentation of the supernatural.
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Annie Webster (University of Edinburgh) 'Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr Annie Webster for an online webinar.
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Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots
New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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Jacobite Imaginations
-In this relaxed discussion session, you get the chance to explore questions and ideas on a Jacobite theme with a variety of specialist researchers. All are extremely welcome to come along, listen, chat as much or as little as we like in a café setting, and see some relevant materials...
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Jacobite Nations
-A Hybrid Workshop showcasing recent work in the field of Jacobite Studies
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Reading Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
-Panel and Discussion
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Come Dancing: Queer Disclosures in Pre-Decriminalisation Filmmaking from Scotland
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Marcus Jack (Glasgow School of Art) 'Poor Modernism: The counternarratives of Scotland's contingent artists' film.'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr Marcus Jack for an online webinar.
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"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.
-This event was cancelled
Join RIISS for a special event to mark the anniversary of a seminal Scottish work.
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"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.
-2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued that the surrender of Scotland’s new-found oil wealth...
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'If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside': Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr James Little (University College Dublin) '"If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside!" Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr James Little for an online webinar.
July
May
March
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Church, state and responsibility: new histories of Irish welfare
-RIISS Research Seminar
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A Hotbed of Second Fiddles ? A Few Scottish Trajectories in late Ancien Regime Paris
-RIISS Seminar All Welcome
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Early and Late Celticism
-RIISS Online Seminar (Please note the early start time)
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In Person, Print, and Prayer: Ragged Schools as a Scottish-English Venture?
-RIISS Research Seminar In recent years historians of education have critiqued the tendency to focus on Scotland alone – an approach, they have argued, that neglects the broader context in which Scottish schools operated (Anderson and Wallace, 2015; McDermid, 2015). The Scottish-English border has proven particularly impermeable to scholars of the...
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Enlightenment and Abolition: Henry Brougham, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Slavery
-RIISS Online Seminar
February
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'Learned Ignorance: An Overlooked Counterhegemonic Epistemic Principle of Humility in 19th-Century Texts by Sir William Hamilton and Thomas Carlyle.'
-RIISS Online Seminar
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Prying Eyes: The Moral Significance of Sentimental Curiosity in Adam Smith and Joanna Baillie
-RIISS Research Seminar
2022
November
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Colonial Surveying, Extraction, and Labour: Networks of Knowledge-Formation between India and Ireland from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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(Re)imagining Coastscapes: Scottish Expertise and the Shaping of pre-Famine Connemara
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies
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New Research in Scottish and Irish Romanticism from the Scott Project Team
-New Voices in irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome Dr Natalie Harries: ‘treasures that would charm a bibliomaniac’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Sources Dr Anna Fancett: Scott's Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter Scott
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Scottish And American Intellectual Relations
-RIISS PGR Workshop
October
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The British Secret Service, the Scottish Book Trade, and the 1707 Act of Union: An Inquiry into the History of Propaganda
-Research Seminar presented by a Friends of Aberdeen University Library, Visiting Scholar: All welcome
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Jacobite Nations workshop
-13:45-14.00: Welcome Michael Taylor (黑料网) 14:00-15.00: Session One Dr Nicola Martin (University of the Highlands and Islands): ‘Highland Loyalism: Regional vs. National Responses to Jacobitism’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha (Ulster University) (Online): ‘Irish Jacobite History and Historiography’ 15:00 BREAK 15:30-16.30: Session Two Prof Michael Brown (黑料网): ‘Jacobite Aesthetics and the Conspiratorial Mind’ Harry Lewis (University of...
September
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Reading Group on Irish and Scottish Liberalism
-This is a reading group which examines the Liberal tradition of political thought, with a view to thinking about Irish and Scottish contributions to that discourse. It was established following the generous provision of two James Beattie Postgraduate fellowships by the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History. It...
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Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
-RIISS Research Seminar
2021
August
May
April
March
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'Pray for the donor: Money and the material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921'
-RIISS Seminar- All Welcome
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'Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720'
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Convention, Parliament and the Third Estate in the Personal Rule of James V
-RIISS Semianr - All Welcome
February
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'James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery'
-RIISS Seminar Jointly Held with the Centre for Early Modern Studies All welcome
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Bad Bridget: Romance and Retribution
-Draws on the AHRC research project 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918' RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
January
2020
December
November
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Globalizing Profession: History of Women Religious Workshop
-9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Introduction Rose Luminiello (黑料网/University of Notre Dame) Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London) 9:30 – 9:50 Perspectives from Australia Katharine Massam (Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity) Joanna Cruickshank (Deakin University) Laura Rademaker (Australian National University) 9:50 – 10:10 Break 10:15 – 10:45 Perspectives from Europe Kaat Wils (KU Leuven) Caitriona Clear...
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Dr Zosia Kuczy帽ska (Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of English Drama and Film, University College Dublin). 'Artistic practice as a model of influence: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer'
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Art History, University of Edinburgh. '"Timor mortis conturbat me": Commemoration and the Macabre at Rosslyn Chapel'.
-'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' All Welcome
October
September
March
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Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations conference
-Royal Society of Edinburgh network event
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Pray for the Donor: Money and the Material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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'Tending to Unsettle the Belief of a Catholic Prisoner': Chaplains, Prison Regimes and the Mind in mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Irish Writers Series: Vona Groarke
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RIISS and Word Centre Irish Writer Series, presenting Vona Groarke
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The 1798 Rebellion: Three Contexts and a Possible Solution
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome