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The University of Glasgow celebrated the centenary of the teaching of Scottish History and Literature with a series of lectures that will run throughout 2013.

There will be 10 lectures, all held in the Mitchell Library, which will acknowledge the crucial contribution that the University of Glasgow has played in the formation of the discipline of Scottish History and Literature over the past hundred years.

Founded in 1913, the People’s Chair of Scottish History and Literature was central in the subjects becoming recognized as academic disciplines in their own right. In the last two decades the University of Glasgow has developed a unique range of interdisciplinary teaching and research topics, involving a number of different disciplines from across the University, making Glasgow an internationally recognized centre for the learning, teaching and research of Scottish History and Literature.

Dauvit Broun, Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, said: “This lecture series is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the breadth of Scottish History and Literature that is now taught and researched at the University of Glasgow, not only within the disciplines of History and Scottish Literature, but in Archaeology and Celtic & Gaelic, too. By focusing the history of Glasgow and its literatures, the series is also a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the people of Glasgow who, through their generosity, made the chair of Scottish History and Literature possible a hundred years ago.”

A pdf of the Centenary lecture series is attached.

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more info is available on the Schools of Humanities and Critical Studies webapges:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/

First published: 30 November 2012