The Global Migrations of the Scottish People Since C.1600

ISSUES, The Global Migrations of the DEBATES AND Scottish People since c.1600 CONTROVERSIES The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Friday 4 July – Sunday 6 July 2014 Foreword Contents Sponsors Conference organising committee

Professor Sir Tom Devine, Director, Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture Conference programme 1–2 Professor Sir T. M. Devine Ms Sarah Duffy Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, and External Affairs, Scottish Government Speaker biographies 3–19 Professor A. H. McCarthy The University of Edinburgh I am delighted that the Scottish Government is supporting Practical information 20 Dr David Ritchie On behalf of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies I wish to the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies conference. Ms Sarah Colegrove extend a very warm welcome to all those attending this major With a high calibre of speakers and a variety of sessions, conference. I have no doubt that delegates will take part in thought- The global migrations of the Scottish people over the centuries provoking and stimulating discussion. This is a great opportunity is a fascinating and important subject and as such fully to bring together our learning from history and to ensure future deserves consideration by some of the best historical minds in the field, not least in this crucial year generations are inspired by Scotland’s emigrant past. of Scotland’s Referendum on the future of the nation. The assortment of topics is also sure to provide the audience with a fascinating insight into Scotland’s I therefore hope you will agree that we have assembled a world-class group of scholars to address contribution to the modern world. you over the next two days or so, on a series of stimulating topics and questions. It is entirely fitting that the conference should be included in Homecoming Scotland 2014, in a year Our objective is to present cutting-edge research in an accessible fashion and at the same time open when we welcome the world to join our celebrations including the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth up arguments, controversies and the clash of ideas in this exciting and dynamic area of study. Games and The Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.

The event could not have taken place without the generous financial support of the Scottish 2014 is a year when Scotland takes global centre stage for a number of reasons. I look forward to the Government. I am most grateful for their help and in particular to Ms Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet conference during this exciting year and hearing the captivating discussions that will be generated Secretary for Culture and External Affairs. from the speakers and audiences alike.

Our partnership with National Museums Scotland (NMS) ensured that the lectures and discussions This is also an event of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) could take place in the congenial surroundings of the National Museum of Scotland. I therefore funded project from 2013-2017 on ‘Scottish Diasporas in Comparative International Perspective’ organised by Professor Sir T.M. Devine also wish to thank the Director of NMS, Dr Gordon Rintoul, and his colleagues for facilitating this (Edinburgh), Professor A. H. McCarthy (Otago), and Dr N. J. Evans (Hull), association. via the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies. Please enjoy!

Front cover image: Glenbow Archives NA-1234-5. The conference will be recorded for public access online. An official photographer will be taking photographs and some sections will be video recorded. Conference programme Friday 4 July Saturday 5 July • Dr Tawny Paul, Northumbria University: ‘Encountering an Imaginary Heritage: 11.00 – 11.30 Tea and coffee Break Roots Tourism and Scotland’s Young Diaspora’ Please enter by the main National Museum of Scotland entrance on Please enter by the main National Museum of Scotland entrance on 11.30 – 1.30 Modern Diaspora: World War Two to the Present Chambers Street Chambers Street 3.00 – 3.30 Tea and coffee break Chair: Jim Tomlinson, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow 3.30 Doors open and registration 8.45 – 9.15 Registration 3.30 – 5.00 Museums, Material Culture and Migration: Presentations by Curatorial • Professor Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen: ‘Scotland No More? An Overview of the Post- Staff of National Museums Scotland (NMS) War Diaspora’ 4.00 Opening of the conference 9.15 Scottish Government Welcome to Delegates • Dr Bernard Kelly, The University of Edinburgh: ‘“Masters in their own House”: The Ex-Service Free Chair: Mr David Forsyth, Senior Curator, Scottish History, NMS Passage Scheme and Scottish Veterans, 1946 – 1955’ Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown MP, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the Policy Mr Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for External Affairs and International Development. • Dr Sarah Worden: ‘Collecting in Africa: Early Scottish Missionary Collections at the National • Mr Iain Watson, The University of Edinburgh: ‘From Opium Traders and Pioneer Settlers to Board of the World Economic Forum; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2007 – 2010; Alumnus in Museum of Scotland’ Professionals and Nation Builders: The Modern Scottish Diaspora in Hong Kong and New Zealand History (MA PhD) of The University of Edinburgh. 9.30 – 11.00 The Scottish Diaspora since c.1600: Profit or Loss for the Homeland? • Ms Friederike Voigt: ‘Robert Murdoch Smith (1835-1900): An Authority on Persian Affairs’ and their Understanding of Scottishness’ Setting the Scene: Diaspora History and the Scottish Diaspora Chair: Ewen Cameron, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography, • Dr Stuart Allan: ‘Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War’ • Mr Robin Naysmith, formerly British Embassy, Washington DC: ‘Scottish Diaspora: Sleeping Army Professor Sir Tom Devine, Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, The University of Edinburgh or Occasional Gathering?’ The University of Edinburgh • Dr Andrew Mackillop, University of Aberdeen: ‘“As Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water?”: 5.00 National Museums Scotland (NMS) Summer Exhibition Private Preview • Mr Gus Noble, President, Chicago Scots, will join the panel for the Q&A session Scotland as an Emigrant Nation, c.1600- c.1800’ Conference delegates are invited to view the NMS summer exhibition 2014 - Common Cause: 1.30 – 2.30 Lunch 4.45 Voices over the Water: A film by Guy Perrotta and Jane Ferguson • Emeritus Professor John MacKenzie, Lancaster University: ‘Migration, the Scottish Economy, and Commonwealth Scots and the Great War - which explores the war stories of the Scottish diaspora Scotland’s Global Reach, 1815-1914’ with loans drawn from collections around the Commonwealth. Chair: Eric Richards, Emeritus Professor of History, Flinders University, Adelaide 2.30 – 3.30 Historians and the Scottish Diaspora: Achievements, • Professor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow: ‘Migration and the Scottish Economy since 1945’ Guy Perrotta, the acclaimed American Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, has been preparing a Challenges, Opportunities documentary for US public television on the Highland Clearances and the Scottish Diaspora. Recent 11.00 – 11.30 Tea and coffee break Sunday 6 July Chair: Dr Enda Delaney, Associate Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, academic research on the subject is taken fully into account in it. The University of Edinburgh Jane Ferguson has worked in film and television in New York and on a number of various media 11.30 – 1.00 Scotland and Black Slavery Please enter by the main National Museum of Scotland entrance on projects in the USA. Chambers Street • David Fitzpatrick, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, and Professorial Fellow, The University of Edinburgh In this special event, excerpts from the forthcoming two-hour film will be shown for the first time to a Chair: Philip Morgan, Harry C Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University USA and public audience. It employs a polyphonic, docu-memoir approach, showing the historical context of Professorial Fellow, The University of Edinburgh 9.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee • Response from Eric Richards, Emeritus Professor of History, Flinders University, Adelaide the Clearances, the topic of ‘Highlandism’ and the debates which continue to resonate to this day. • Dr Nick Draper, University College London: ‘Scotland’s Importance in British Colonial The film also sheds light on the ways the diaspora has sought to interpret this history. Slave-Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records’ 9.30 – 11.00 Scottish Migrants and Cross-Cultural Encounters 3.30 – 4.00 Tea and coffee break Mr Perrotta and Ms Ferguson will make a brief presentation on the objectives of the documentary, • Dr David Alston, Independent Scholar:’“May You Return as Rich as a Demerary Man”: Chair: Stuart Macintyre, Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne 4.00 – 6.00 Scotland Today: Perspectives from the Diaspora discuss its central themes and describe some of the challenges they faced in making the film. Clips Highland Scots in Guyana, South America, 1760–1834’ from the programme will also be screened. • Dr Eric Graham, The University of Edinburgh: ‘Robert Burns and the Sugar Plantocracy • Professor Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College USA: ‘Have the Scotch no Claim upon the Chair: Mr Harry McGrath, DotScot Registry of Ayrshire’ Cherokee?’ • Dr Laurie Anderson, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver • Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney: ‘Right Across the Spectrum: Scots and Indigenous 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch Peoples in the Australian Colonies’ • Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, House of Lords • Professor Angela McCarthy, University of Otago: ‘James Taylor and Cross-Cultural Encounters • Professor Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne 2.00 – 3.00 Heritage in Ceylon’ • Mr David Speedie, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York Chair: Dr Alex Murdoch, Associate Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, The University • Mr Alan Bain, President of the American-Scottish Foundation, New York City, will join the panel for of Edinburgh the Q&A session

• Dr David Hesse, Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich: ‘Home is Where the Heart is: Affinity Scots and the 6.00 Reception for all in the National Museum of Scotland 1 Scottish Diaspora’ 2 Speaker biographies

Dr Stuart Allan Dr David Alston Dr Laurie Anderson Prof Colin Calloway Interim Principal Curator of Scottish History and former Senior Curator of Independent Researcher and Historian Executive Director, Simon Fraser University (SFU) Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College Military History, National Museums Scotland David is Chair of Cromarty Harbour Trust. He studied full time at the universities of Aberdeen (MA Dr Anderson is also an Adjunct Professor in SFU’s Faculty of Education, an Associate in SFU’s Stuart has curated a number of successful exhibitions and is currently working with colleague David with First Class Honours in Mental Philosophy) and St Mary’s College, Newcastle (Certificate in Centre for Dialogue, and the Lead Facilitator for SFU’s Public Square. Previously, Dr Anderson spent Colin Calloway is the inaugural endowed chair holder of the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professorship. Forsyth on ‘Common Cause’, a centenary First World War exhibition exploring the Scottish diaspora’s Education with distinction, 1980-81). He also studied part time at the universities of Leicester 30 years with the Vancouver School Board as a teacher, principal, director, associate superintendent He received his PhD from the University of Leeds in England in 1978. After moving to the United experience of the conflict. He is the co-author of The Thin Red Line: War, Empire and Visions of (Diploma in Museum Studies, 1994) and Dundee (1999) where he completed his PhD in and interim superintendent of schools, and taught educational leadership programmes for senior States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as Associate Director and Scotland (2004), and author of Commando Country (2007). With colleague Dr Henrietta Lidchi, he is Modern History. officials in Hong Kong, Beijing and Bangkok. Laurie obtained his BEd, MA and PhD at SFU. Most editor of the D’Arcy McNickle Centre for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library importantly, Laurie was born and raised in Rutherglen and emigrated to Vancouver in the ‘60s. in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with currently principal investigator for two related collaborative research projects, funded by the Royal His current research focuses on the role of Highland Scots in the slave plantations of Guyana before Dartmouth since 1990 when he first came as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy/Leverhulme respectively, researching non-western emancipation in 1834. He is one of the first Scottish historians to draw attention to the prominent role of the faculty in 1995. Professor Calloway has written many books on Native American history, objects in military collections and the place of collecting in British military culture. He is an Honorary of Scots in the slave trade and the plantation economies of the Caribbean. Postdoctoral Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh. including: Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History (Oxford University Press, 2012).

3 4 Prof Ewen Cameron Prof Ann Curthoys Dr Enda Delaney Prof Sir Tom Devine Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography, Honorary Professor, University of Sydney Associate Director for the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies and Personal Senior Research Professor of History and Director of the The University of Edinburgh Ann researches in Australian history, set in a broad transnational and imperial history frame. Her Reader in History, The University of Edinburgh Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, The University of Edinburgh Ewen A. Cameron is Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. major project, the topic of her recently completed ARC professorial fellowship, is entitled ‘The British Born and raised in Dublin, Enda holds degrees from the National University of Ireland (BA, MA) and Tom previously held professorships at the University of Strathclyde (where he was also Deputy He works on matters relating to the history of the Scottish highlands, the land question in Scotland Empire, Indigenous Peoples, and Self-Government for the Australian Colonies’. She is writing with Queen’s University Belfast (PhD). His initial postdoctoral work was on the Irish in post-war Britain and Principal) and the University of Aberdeen (where he was founding Director of the AHRC Centre for and Ireland and modern Scottish politics. He has published widely on these areas; his most recent Jessie Mitchell a book from this project for Cambridge University Press, provisionally titled Taking he has written extensively on the history of modern Ireland and its diaspora, including three scholarly Irish and Scottish Studies). He came to Edinburgh in 2006 to take up the Sir William Fraser Chair of book is Impaled on a Thistle: Scotland since 1880 (2010) in the ‘New Edinburgh History of Scotland’ Liberty: How Settlers in the Australian Colonies Gained Self-Government while Indigenous People Lost books and two jointly-edited volumes. Since 2007 his research has focused primarily on the social Scottish History and Palaeography, the world’s oldest professorship in the field. published by Edinburgh University Press. It. She also co-authored with John Docker Is History Fiction? (rev.edn. 2010). Ann continues to write and cultural history of late modern Ireland, including the diaspora. He has published widely in Scottish history and related fields since the sixteenth century and has on questions of history, fiction, memory, and writing. been awarded several accolades, prizes and honorary degrees in recognition of his scholarship, including the Royal Medal by HM The Queen, Scotland’s supreme academic accolade.

In 2012 Penguin Books published in paperback his three volume study on the modern history of the nation at home and abroad, The Scotland Trilogy.

Tom Devine is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy, the only UK scholar in the Humanities and Social Sciences elected to all three learned societies for which he is eligible.

5 6 Dr Nick Draper Ms Jane Ferguson Prof David Fitzpatrick Mr David Forsyth Research Associate for the Legacies of British Slave Ownership Project Co-Producer/Co-Director/Co-Writer Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin Senior Curator of Scottish Social History and Diaspora, National Museums and Co-director of the Structure and Significance of British Caribbean Slave Jane is a graduate of the Director’s Guild of America Assistant Director Training Program and has David has written studies of Irish emigration, the Great Famine, the Irish revolution, sectarianism, Scotland (NMS) Ownership, 1763-1833 Project, University College London (UCL) worked in New York film and television on such varied projects as A Beautiful Mind, War of The labour history, education, women’s history, Australian history and much else. A member of the Royal David curates the Scottish social and cultural collections from c.1500-1900 with particular interest in Prior to joining UCL as a doctoral candidate and then a Teaching Fellow, Nick worked in the City for Worlds, National Treasure, Law & Order, In Treatment, 30 Rock, and Smash. In addition she served for Irish Academy, he is currently investigating the Orange Order. His study of the correspondence of the material culture of the Scottish diaspora, Scottish associational culture, both at home and abroad, 25 years. His foundational analysis of the Slave Compensation records was published by Cambridge many years as a theatre stage manager in Britain and in the USA. She is a product of the Scottish Irish emigrants in Australia, Oceans of Consolation (1994), proposed new methods for analysing the and the social history of religion in Scotland. He joined NMS as a researcher on the then Museum of University Press in 2009 as The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British diaspora with Caledonian relatives in Argentina, the United States, Australia and England. letters of the unlettered. His recent works include ‘Solitary and Wild’: Frederick MacNeice and the Scotland Project to develop the gallery on the Scottish diaspora. Salvation of Ireland (2013) and (as editor and contributor) Terror in Ireland, 1916-1923 (2013). Society at the End of Slavery. More recently he acted as Lead Curator of the Art Fund nominated ‘Scotland: A Changing Nation’ His next book, Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories since 1795, is forthcoming from Cambridge The book was awarded the 2009 Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize and was shortlisted for the gallery which considers life in Scotland from 1900 until the present. He is Principal Investigator, along University Press. 2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. with Dr Wendy Ugolini of the University of Edinburgh, on a Scottish Government funded and Royal Society of Edinburgh administered project on the Scottish diaspora and the First World War. His In 2008-2009, Nick acted as historical consultant to the ‘Slavers of Harley Street’ exhibit at the latest project, with his colleague Dr Stuart Allan, is the NMS exhibition for the centenary of the First Museum in Docklands. World War, which explores the Scottish diaspora’s experience of this conflict.

7 8 Dr Eric Graham Prof Marjory Harper Dr David Hesse Dr Bernard Kelly Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Professor in History, University of Aberdeen Washington Bureau Chief, Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich Formerly Career Development Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Studies, The University of Edinburgh Marjory’s research and publications are primarily in the field of Scottish emigration. She is currently David Hesse received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2011. His research examines Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, The University of Edinburgh Eric was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and is a graduate of Strathclyde and Exeter universities where he working on two commissioned monographs: one on Scottish emigration in the twentieth century, and issues of identity, remembrance, and historical re-enactment. Among his publications are Scotland Born in Galway, Bernard studied History and English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, studied Scottish and Maritime History. His doctoral thesis provided the basis of his book A Maritime one on the Scots in New Zealand. She has recently co-authored (along with Dr Stephen Constantine and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010 (edited with T. M. Devine) and Warrior Dreams: Playing between 1998 and 2002. In 2006 he completed a MSc by Research in History at the University of History of Scotland, 1650-1790 (2002). of Lancaster University) a study of British emigration and settlement between 1815 and the 1970s, Scotsmen in Mainland Europe (2014). He currently works as Washington Bureau Chief for Tages- Edinburgh, before returning to Galway in the same year to begin work on his PhD. He completed this published by Oxford University Press, as a companion volume in the Oxford History of the British Anzeiger, a leading Swiss daily newspaper. in 2009 and was awarded the degree in summer 2010. He came back to Edinburgh in January 2012 Eric’s interests cover a spectrum of subjects related to the Scots and the sea and he is regularly Empire series. Her history of Scottish emigration in the nineteenth century, entitled Adventurers and to take up the post of Career Development Postdoctoral Fellow. invited to appear on TV and radio as a historical expert. He is currently retained as the Historical Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus (London: Profile, 2003), won the Saltire Society Prize for the best Researcher to the Trinity House Leith Collection for Historic Scotland and has recently been History book of the year in 2004. appointed a Research Associate to the newly launched ‘Structure and Significance of British Caribbean Slave-ownership 1763-1833’ project at University College London.

9 10 Baroness Helen Liddell of Coatdyke Prof Stuart Macintyre Prof John MacKenzie Dr Andrew Mackillop Member of the House of Lords Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen

Helen was British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005-2009 and had previously been a Stuart Macintyre was educated in Melbourne and undertook doctoral studies in history at Cambridge. John is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen and Honorary Professorial Fellow at Andrew’s current research interests include the nature of Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in the Member of Parliament for Monklands East from 1994-1997, and for Airdrie and Shotts from He has held appointments at the University of Cambridge, Murdoch University, the Australian the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of a number of books on British imperial history, mainly English East India Company from c.1695 to c.1813. The chronological timescale and methods used 1997-2005. National University and the University of Melbourne. in the areas of cultural and environmental history. In 2011, he was the co-editor (with Tom Devine) of by these ‘metropolitan provincials’ to colonise one of London’s greatest chartered corporations, with Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press). He is currently working on a large project a burgeoning commercial and territorial empire in Asia, forms a key problematic. Her Ministerial career began in 1997 when she became Economic Secretary to the Treasury. In 1998 He is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Research Council, and from 2007 on empires in human history for the publisher Wiley-Blackwell, is editing a volume with the title she became Deputy Secretary of State for Scotland and Minister for Education, and then Minister for to 2009 was President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. From 2009 he has been a Utilising social network theory and concepts of ‘human capital’ to compare the mercantile, Exhibiting the Empire and is working on a cultural history of the British Empire. He has travelled very Transport in 1999. She was appointed Minister of State for Energy and Competitiveness in Europe professorial research fellow of the Australian Research Council. professional, financial and legal associative tendencies of these groups, the research explores the extensively throughout the former British Empire, including many of the places where Scots settled. until January 2001, when she became Secretary of State for Scotland until 2003. She received a life processes of enduring ‘global’ diversity and convergence that shaped those participating in the Asian Stuart’s research interests are principally in Australian history. He has written extensively on aspects He now lives in retirement in Perthshire. peerage in 2010. hemisphere of Britain’s global empire. The last thread of this topic takes the process of sojourning to of Australian labour history, political history and intellectual history. He has recently completed a Asia full cycle by focusing on the impact of wealth made in Asia upon Scotland, Wales and Ireland. history of the social sciences in Australia, The Poor Relation. His current projects include the history of communism in Australia and a study of post-war reconstruction.

11 12 Prof Angela McCarthy Mr Harry McGrath Prof Philip Morgan Dr Alex Murdoch Professor of Scottish and Irish History in the Department of History and Art Chair, DotScot Registry Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, and Professorial Senior Lecturer in Scottish History, The University of Edinburgh History and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Harry was born in Glasgow, emigrated to Canada in 1981 and returned to live in Scotland in 2007. Fellow, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, The University of Edinburgh Alex was formerly Co-director and resident researcher for the Scottish Records Program of the North University of Otago He is the former Coordinator of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Philip is an Early American historian who has subsidiary interests in African-American history and Carolina Colonial Records Project, 1986-1990, and Principal Lecturer in History and American Studies Angela McCarthy is a historian specialising in Scottish and Irish migration and is also Visiting Columbia. He now runs the Edinburgh-based Scottish Canadian Agency and advises Scottish the study of the Atlantic world. He was previously a professor at the College of William and Mary. His at what is now the University of Northampton. He was appointed to the University of Edinburgh Professor at the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh. A graduate of Development International on its work in Canada. He is Chair of the DotScot Registry, a not-for-profit fellowships include: Institute of Early American History and Culture, Charles Warren Centre at Harvard in 1995. company, and is also the online editor of the Scottish Review of Books. Trinity College, Dublin, she has worked at the universities of Hull and Aberdeen and held fellowships University, John Carter Brown Library, and his prizes include: Association of Caribbean Historians His past external posts and offices in learned societies include being external examiner for Scottish at Victoria University, Wellington, and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Her books include Best Article Prize (1995-1997); American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award and History honours courses at the University of St Andrews, 2001-04; Book Review Editor for Scottish Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840 (2011), Personal Narratives of Irish and Wesley-Logan Prize (1998); Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize (1999); Historical Review, 1998-2002; Trustee of the Scottish Historical Review Trust, 1997-1999; Member of Scottish Migration, 1921-65: ‘For Spirit and Adventure’ (2007) and, as editor, A Global Clan: Scottish South Carolina Historical Society Prize (1999); Columbia University, Bancroft Prize (1999). His Council for the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, 1997-2001; Member of Council, Migrant Networks and Identities since the Eighteenth Century (2006). Angela has recently completed a most recent major project is provisionally entitled ‘Jamaican Small World: White and Black in the Scottish Church History Society, 1996- to present; and Member of Council, Scottish History Society, major Royal Society of New Zealand funded study on migration, ethnicity, and madness, and is now Eighteenth Century’. 1996-1999. Alex has also been external examiner for postgraduate dissertations submitted to the researching the life of James Taylor, ‘the father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, St Andrews and the University of the Highlands and Islands.

13 14 Mr Robin Naysmith Dr Tawny Paul Mr Guy Perrotta Prof Eric Richards Formerly Scottish Government Counsellor, British Embassy, Washington DC Lecturer in History, Northumbria University Independent Producer, Writer, Director and Media Theorist Emeritus Professor of History, Flinders University

Robin made his career in the UK Civil Service and spent several years at the Department of Tawny came to the University of Edinburgh in 2005 with a fellowship from the St Andrew’s Society Guy is a researcher and consultant for films and documentary videos for both broadcast television Eric previously taught at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His published work includes an Health in London before returning to Edinburgh to head up the Scottish Government’s Energy of the State of New York. She pursued her interest in using legal records to study urban life in early and non-broadcast. He was co-producer, co-director, co-writer and researcher for the award-winning acclaimed biography of Patrick Sellar, which was awarded the prize for Scottish History Book of the and Telecommunications Policy Division. After an assignment as Head of Cabinet Secretariat, he Britain through a PhD in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh, which examined public television documentary Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War, receiving two Emmy® Year (1999) by the Saltire Society. was appointed Principal Private Secretary to the (then) First Minister of Scotland, the Rt Hon. Jack credit relations in the eighteenth century. Awards from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Outstanding Achievement, Internationally, Professor Richards is best known for his extensive published works on the McConnell (now Lord McConnell) and continued to serve in that capacity under First Minister, the Rt Documentary Program, and Outstanding Achievement, Program Writing. He has served as Director For the past six years she has worked as an interpretive planner, helping to develop museum depopulation of the Scottish Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including The Hon. Alex Salmond MSP. of Promotions and Special Events and juror for various film festivals in the United States. He is a exhibitions. While working in this area she began to take an interest in how museums present history, Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil, which was published in 2008 and is member of the American Association of State and Local History, the International Documentary In November 2007 Robin was appointed to the post of Scottish Government Counsellor, North and how our perceptions of the past are put to use in the present. Tawny took up her current post as currently being revised for its fourth edition. Association, the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, and the Society for Visual America, based at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. As an accredited diplomat, Robin was, for Lecturer in History at Northumbria University in January 2014. Anthropology. Guy also is developing a Native American film screening series in conjunction with film In 2014 he will be spending four months as the Carnegie Trust Centenary Professor at the Centre six years, Scotland’s most senior diplomatic representative in North America. Robin left the Scottish festivals in the United States. for History, part of the new University of the Highlands and Islands in east Sutherland, where he will Government at the end of 2013 but retains his association with a number of diaspora organisations continue his groundbreaking work on the history of the Highlands. in North America. He is a member of the GlobalScot network, a life member of the American Scottish Foundation and a member of the St Andrew’s Society of the State of New York.

15 16 Mr David Speedie Prof Jim Tomlinson Mr Iain Watson Dr Sarah Worden Senior Fellow and Director, Program on U.S. Global Engagement, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow PhD Candidate, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, Senior Curator of the African Collections, National Museums Scotland (NMS) The University of Edinburgh Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Jim was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and spent the Sarah specialises in the cultural significance of African textiles. She is curator of the 2013 In 2007–2008, David was also a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International years 1977 to 2004 at Brunel University, where he became Professor of Economic History and Head Iain tutors Modern Scottish History and Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. He holds bi-centenary exhibition ‘Dr Livingstone I Presume’ at the National Museum of Scotland and editor Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. of the Department of Government. From 2004 to 2013 he was Bonar Professor of Modern History at a MSc degree from that University in Diaspora and Migration History and has had a global Scottish of the accompanying book David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy. She is currently working in the University of Dundee and from 2013 Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of expatriate life in Singapore, Malaysia, France, the Yemen, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia partnership with National Museums of Malawi on a professional development programme and For three years, David was a professor of English and Drama at the University of St. Andrews in his Glasgow. He has published widely on the historical political economy of modern Britain, and his new and England. researching National Museums Scotland Scottish missionary collections from Central Africa. native Scotland. David holds an MA in Education and an MLitt. from the University of St. Andrews. He book, Dundee and the Empire: Juteopolis, circa 1850-1939, will be published by Edinburgh University was a visiting research fellow as a Kennedy scholar at Harvard University from 1971-1973. He has Iain is the beneficiary of a Scottish Government PhD Studentship in Scottish Diaspora Studies and Press in 2014. been a book editor and writer for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Community Vision, a freelance works in the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies. His research project compares Scottish migration journalist on politics for The Scotsman, and most recently, a reviewer for the International Journal of myths among Scottish settlers and sojourners in New Zealand and Hong Kong and is jointly Middle East Studies. supervised by Dr Enda Delaney of the University of Edinburgh and Professor Angela McCarthy of the University of Otago, New Zealand.

17 18 Practical information

Local transport Restaurant guide Flow The Conference is centrally located and within walking distance of the The area around the National Museum of Scotland is in the centre of the A Diaspora Exhibition University’s Central Campus area. Old Town and can get very busy. Therefore, if you plan to have dinner in Edinburgh during the conference, we advise you to book in advance. The Throughout the conference there will be an exhibition of the work of Local taxis Catriona Taylor on modern Polish immigration to Scotland. Catriona following is a list of nearby restaurants – the prices and menus vary, giving was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Scottish Centre for Local taxis can either be ordered on the following numbers or found at many ranks around the city. you a wide choice to choose from. Diaspora Studies from 2012-13. Taxi fares can vary but for travel within the city centre expect to pay between £5 to £10 for a fare. Hotel du Vin: a boutique hotel in Bristo Place close to the University. It has become very popular as Central Taxis – 0131 229 2468 a romantic venue. The main courses average around £15-£20 including items such as jellied eels, Book stall City Cabs – 0131 228 1211 streaky bacon and mash potatoes or beef and snail pie. During the conference Blackwells South Bridge will be selling books written by speakers. This is an opportunity for delegates to have Local buses (Lothian Buses) www.hotelduvin.com/locations/edinburgh T: +44 (0)84473 64255 them signed by those authors who are present! For the Carlton Hotel or accommodation located along South Bridge, Nicolson Street or Clerk Street The Tower Restaurant: located on the roof of the Museum of Scotland at the corner of Chambers the 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 33, 37, 47, 49 buses are best. Street, this is the best located restaurant in the area with a view over the city. The restaurant has a For further information, email [email protected] Ms Friederike Voigt For the National Museum of Scotland, or accommodation based on George IV Bridge the 2, 23, 27, reputation amongst the discerning and a price tag to match. Senior Curator of Middle East and Asia, National Museums Scotland (NMS) 41, 42, 47, 67 buses are best. www.tower-restaurant.com T: +44 (0)131 225 3003 A single bus fare on a local bus is £1.50 or £3.50 for an unlimited day ticket; please note that Friederike has been responsible for the collections from the Middle East and South Asia since 2008. The Outsider: located at 15 George IV Bridge, this is a more modestly priced establishment doing Edinburgh buses do not give change so carrying the exact money is best. She obtained an MA in Iranian studies, art history and sociology from the Humboldt University in very good bistro food. Popular with students. T: +44 (0)131 226 3131 Berlin, Germany, where she is currently finishing her doctorate. Her main research interest is Iranian www.lothianbuses.com Vittoria: located at 19 George IV Bridge. As the name implies it is a family owned Italian restaurant material culture, in particular nineteenth century tile work and its technology of production. Since her next door to The Outsider, again popular with locals and students. The ice cream is highly regarded. Masters degree she has published on Middle Eastern collections in relation to collectors. In her most More information Be sure to book at Vittoria on the Bridge as there are two restaurants of the same name run by the recent article she focused on the building of the collection from the culturally linked Central Asian If you have any questions or queries regarding travel arrangements please contact Sarah Duffy at the same family and the other is on Leith Walk some distance away. region at NMS. Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at [email protected] www.vittoriarestaurant.com T: +44 (0)131 225 1740 For further information about the University of Edinburgh, visit www.ed.ac.uk Howies: located at the top of Victoria Street, Howies is one of the two Scottish family run restaurants based in Edinburgh. It serves simple Scottish cooking of seasonal produce in a bistro-style interior. www.howies.uk.com/edinburgh_victoria.php T: +44 (0)131 225 1721

These are only a few of the restaurants in the area. Many pubs also serve food until 10pm. For a comprehensive guide to Edinburgh restaurants, visit www.edinburgh-eating.com. Alternatively, contact Sarah Duffy at [email protected]

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