PROFESSOR ELIZABETH EWAN WILL DELIVER THE THIRD ANNUAL JENNY WORMALD LECTURE, OCTOBER 2025

Feuding in the Streets? Gender, Crime, and Conflict in Scottish Towns, c. 1500-1600

Date: Friday, 24 October 2024

Time: TBC

Location: University of Glasgow, TBC

About the speaker: Elizabeth Ewan is University Professor Emerita at the University of Guelph and Visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Following a PhD in Scottish History at Edinburgh University, she taught at the University  of Western Ontario, University of Victoria, British Columbia and the Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph. In 2006, she was awarded a University Research Chair in History and Scottish Studies. Her research focuses on gender, urban history and crime in late medieval and early modern Scotland. Publications include Townlife in Fourteenth-Century Scotland (1990), plus numerous co-edited works: Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (1999); The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (2006; 2018); Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (2008); Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (2015); Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinities in Scottish History (2017). 

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The event is free and open to all. Attendees (including Trustees), must book either an online or in-person ticket: booking information to follow.