Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Saturday 6 May 2017

0900 – 0930:               Registration and Tea and Coffee

0930 – 0945:                Welcome by Convener, Professor T. C. Smout (University of St Andrews)

0945 – 1020:                Norah Carlin (formerly Middlesex University), ‘Rents, Dues and Agriculture in a Midlothian Barony, 1587-1589’

1020 – 1055:               Professor R. W. Hoyle (University of Reading), ‘A Tale of Two Countries and One Sea: The North Sea Grain Trade, c.1550-1765′

1055 – 1125:               Tea and Coffee Break

1125 – 1200:               Brian Smith (Shetland Archives), ‘”God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound”: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax and Tithe in Shetland, c.1640′

1200 – 1225:               Dr Alan R. MacDonald (University of Dundee), ‘Teinds and Stipends in Seventeenth-Century Linlithgowshire’

1225 – 1355:               Lunch (own arrangements)

1355 – 1430:               Dr Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh), ‘Imagining Scottish Agriculture Before the Improvers’

1430 – 1505:               Professor T. C. Smout (University of St Andrews), ‘What Were the Fiars Prices Used For, 1550-1920? An Early Modern Device Carried Forward’

1505 – 1540:               Dr Gains Murdoch (University of Aberdeen), ‘Agriculture and Banking in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 1695-1750’

1540 – 1600:               Tea and Coffee Break

1600 – 1630:               Closing remarks from Professor R. A. Houston (University of St Andrews) and final discussion