History Research

The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow is delighted to announce the Sixth Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture, established and named in honour of Dr John Durkan (1914-2006).

John Durkan was Senior Research Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and an intellectual giant of the discipline, specialising in religion, culture and learning in the era of the Scottish Renaissance and Reformation.

The Sixth Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday 24 March 2020, at 5.30pm. Professor Michael Lynch will speak on ‘Revisiting the Scottish Reformation: a search for answers or for the right questions?’.

Michael Lynch is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a leading historian of the Scottish Reformation and Renaissance, and early modern Scottish urbanisation. He moved to Edinburgh from University College, Bangor, in 1979, and was promoted to the Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography in 1993, retiring in 2005. His published books include Edinburgh and the Reformation (1981) and Scotland: A New History (1991). Edited works include The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (2001). In 1994, along with Alasdair MacDonald and Ian Cowan, he edited John Durkan’s festschrift under the title The Renaissance in Scotland: studies in literature, religion, history and culture offered to John Durkan.  

Professor Lynch served as chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland (1996-2002), president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1996-9) and trustee of the National Museums of Scotland (2002-8).

The lecture will be preceded by tea/coffee, available from 5pm, outside the lecture theatre; and followed by a wine reception.

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First published: 9 March 2020