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Two 'Little Ice Ages and an Anomaly: Climate, Environment and Cultural Change in Medieval and early modern Scotland [Edinburgh & online] ...

02 June 2024

Two 'Little Ice Ages and an Anomaly: Climate, Environment and Cultural Change in Medieval and early modern Scotland

A series of six lectures over the three days by Professor Richard Oram, organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. These form this year's Rhind lecture series. Come to one or all, in person (at Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh) or online.

Further details and bookings via Eventbrite. Free

Friday 31st 5pm An Age 'Off wyne and wax, gamyn and fle'? 'Slow' and 'fast violence in chageable times

Friday 6:30pm A drive for growth: agricultural sustainability, resilience and failure

Saturday 1st June 3pm 'The woods of Scotland are utterly destroyed': managing and imagining forest and woodland

Saturday 1st June 4:30 pm: Fuelling division? Conflicted histories of the peat-coal transition

Sunday 2nd June 3pm: Gooding the Earth: soil erosion /soil enrichment and ecological change

Sunday 3rd June 4:30pm A change in the air: reconceptualizing Scotland's 'dark and drublie' days.

 

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