The Edinburgh Works of Allan Ramsay
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: College of Arts
Abstract
RQ: How will the first full textual edition of the works of Allan Ramsay enable us to define the development of Romanticism, Enlightenment, ballad opera and literary Scots in the eighteenth century?
R Context: The Works of Allan Ramsay is the first full and consistent scholarly edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), the poet, early Romantic song-collector and cultural entrepreneur, creator of the first established theatre in modern Scotland and probably the first subscription library in the UK. There is one existing textual edition, which is the Martin, Oliver, Kinghorn and Law edition (1945-74). This was assembled by a diverse group of editors without a single unifying textual policy over time. Not only does it not always have a consistent approach to textual editing: it also often does not utilize extant MS readings, and further MS readings (and 130 MSS) have of course come to light since its publication. More can be expected to be identified once an edition is under way: the Burns edition has now identified 160 new MSS not known at the time of the publication of the relevant volume of The Index for English Literary Manuscripts. The Index entry on Ramsay notes the current edition's serious limitations and inadequacy as a scholarly text in uncompromising terms:
...deeply flawed as a scholarly edition. It is badly organised;
its transcription of MSS...is unacceptably inaccurate; its contents
pages, titling, indexes and apparatus are variously inadequate,
inconsistent and error-ridden. (IELM II:3, 172)
R methods: There is in no sense, then, a satisfactory textual edition of Ramsay extant. The 'Edinburgh Ramsay' (under contract with Edinburgh University Press, together with supporting monograph) is based on new archival research and is a comprehensive scholarly annotated edition based on contemporary textual editing methods (the PI's work in this area has been described as setting 'new standards for primary research in eighteenth-century song-texts'), with the addition of primary research supportive of both scholarly and KE/Impact outcomes under the University of Glasgow strategy (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/rsio/knowledgeexchange/). The 'Works' will deal fully for the first time with Ramsay's use of music and the issues raised for the development of Scottish song and its historic performance more generally. The 'Works' will make Ramsay's texts readily available for the first time in many years. Associated web learning resources (including Scottish Qualification Authority relevant resources for schools thanks to the link between Education Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence resources and the University of Glasgow) will support the development of a separate paperback edition of the Poems.
The 'Works' will be accompanied by a volume devoted to the contexts and themes of Ramsay's Edinburgh: art, music, politics, urban environment and many others. This will be supported by a web resource on Ramsay's Edinburgh, which will include an online bibliography, song performances (including historically informed ones) , a section on people and clubs of Ramsay's Edinburgh, a prosopographical study of the subscription list for Poems (1721) and a resource on Ramsay's reception. A concert will be arranged to complement the online song recordings. Reflective scholarly material will accompany recordings.
We will also work with external partners, including an exhibition with the National Library with an accompanying symposium highlighting their Ramsay treasures. We will work with the National Galleries of Scotland on their collections policy in the new £17M Celebrating Scotland's Art project CAPEX based on our research findings on the art trade in Edinburgh, and with the University of South Carolina on collections development. We will also lead the continuing development of the Allan Ramsay Literary Festival at the Allan Ramsay Hotel, Carlops (http://www.allanramsayhotel).
R Context: The Works of Allan Ramsay is the first full and consistent scholarly edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), the poet, early Romantic song-collector and cultural entrepreneur, creator of the first established theatre in modern Scotland and probably the first subscription library in the UK. There is one existing textual edition, which is the Martin, Oliver, Kinghorn and Law edition (1945-74). This was assembled by a diverse group of editors without a single unifying textual policy over time. Not only does it not always have a consistent approach to textual editing: it also often does not utilize extant MS readings, and further MS readings (and 130 MSS) have of course come to light since its publication. More can be expected to be identified once an edition is under way: the Burns edition has now identified 160 new MSS not known at the time of the publication of the relevant volume of The Index for English Literary Manuscripts. The Index entry on Ramsay notes the current edition's serious limitations and inadequacy as a scholarly text in uncompromising terms:
...deeply flawed as a scholarly edition. It is badly organised;
its transcription of MSS...is unacceptably inaccurate; its contents
pages, titling, indexes and apparatus are variously inadequate,
inconsistent and error-ridden. (IELM II:3, 172)
R methods: There is in no sense, then, a satisfactory textual edition of Ramsay extant. The 'Edinburgh Ramsay' (under contract with Edinburgh University Press, together with supporting monograph) is based on new archival research and is a comprehensive scholarly annotated edition based on contemporary textual editing methods (the PI's work in this area has been described as setting 'new standards for primary research in eighteenth-century song-texts'), with the addition of primary research supportive of both scholarly and KE/Impact outcomes under the University of Glasgow strategy (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/rsio/knowledgeexchange/). The 'Works' will deal fully for the first time with Ramsay's use of music and the issues raised for the development of Scottish song and its historic performance more generally. The 'Works' will make Ramsay's texts readily available for the first time in many years. Associated web learning resources (including Scottish Qualification Authority relevant resources for schools thanks to the link between Education Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence resources and the University of Glasgow) will support the development of a separate paperback edition of the Poems.
The 'Works' will be accompanied by a volume devoted to the contexts and themes of Ramsay's Edinburgh: art, music, politics, urban environment and many others. This will be supported by a web resource on Ramsay's Edinburgh, which will include an online bibliography, song performances (including historically informed ones) , a section on people and clubs of Ramsay's Edinburgh, a prosopographical study of the subscription list for Poems (1721) and a resource on Ramsay's reception. A concert will be arranged to complement the online song recordings. Reflective scholarly material will accompany recordings.
We will also work with external partners, including an exhibition with the National Library with an accompanying symposium highlighting their Ramsay treasures. We will work with the National Galleries of Scotland on their collections policy in the new £17M Celebrating Scotland's Art project CAPEX based on our research findings on the art trade in Edinburgh, and with the University of South Carolina on collections development. We will also lead the continuing development of the Allan Ramsay Literary Festival at the Allan Ramsay Hotel, Carlops (http://www.allanramsayhotel).
Planned Impact
Beneficiaries from this research and means by which they might benefit:
Who might benefit from this research ?
1. The academic and educational community in language, literature and history.
How might they benefit ? Through the creation for the first time of a stable and accurate text of Allan Ramsay's work, a paperback original monograph, a companion volume and online resources, with a paperback selected poems to follow. The special journal issues planned include Studies in Scottish Literature, a gold open access pioneer, which had 170000 downloads in 2015 alone. This special number will focus both on the editing of Ramsay and his significance to Romanticism, Enlightenment, song collecting and ballad opera.
2. The academic and educational community in music.
How? Through the first study of the genesis and development of the music for Ramsay's song collecting, and through the recording of historically informed performances.
3. Schools.
How? through the dissemination of an advanced Edinburgh in the First Age of Enlightenment web resource by our partners in Education Scotland, and specifically through the songs and the 'Ramsay's Edinburgh' resources.
4. National institutions, the community in Penicuik and Edinburgh, tourists and the public
How? Through media, web resources, concert and song recordings, and through the Allan Ramsay Festival, the development of tourist trails and associated tourism and community economic benefit, and also via the National Library Treasures exhibition and National Gallery new £17M CAPEX development where PI is an advisor.
5. Public and charitable agencies and the third sector will benefit.
How? From exhibitions and their digital links, e.g. http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinburghenlightenment/) . The National Library of Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Museums are partners in an overall developing research strategy with the University of Glasgow chaired by the PI, presented to the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in Glasgow on 11 November 2016. It is the PI's intention that the Ramsay Project will share in the benefits of this development through partnership with the National Library of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland on the KE committee. New research underpinning £17M Scottish Galleries development will be available to 1.4M visitors a year.
6. The media.
How? The PI will set up a Comms strategy with the University of Glasgow Comms office. Media coverage will also provide an opportunity for project staff: the PI's RA on the Editing Burns project recently (February 2016) reached the top 5% of academia edu for media citation, while the PI has repeatedly had top 10 University of Glasgow quarterly media coverage stories from previous AHRC projects and has appeared in the media in 50 countries.
7. Practitioner groups and festivals such as TMSA (Traditional Music) and Celtic Connections.
How? The project's research on the origins of song tunes and their historically informed performance will widen traditional performers' repertoire. The PIs close engagement with Glasgow Life will support this dissemination.
8. The Scottish economy.
How? Through expanded cultural tourism to Ramsay and Edinburgh. The ' Ramsay's Edinburgh' section of the website (will be offered to VisitScotland (the PI knows the Head of Partnership Communications, Jenni Steele), who will also be engaged with the Ramsay trail development, now under way (first tranche launched at Ramsay Festival 2016). The PI's Royal Society of Edinburgh scoping project has already been adjudged as meeting Scottish Government priorities in tourism, international profile raising and economic development, while his previous research is now accessible via the Scottish Government's official welcome website: http://www.scotland.org/whats-on/burns-night/join-our-global-burns-celebration/
Who might benefit from this research ?
1. The academic and educational community in language, literature and history.
How might they benefit ? Through the creation for the first time of a stable and accurate text of Allan Ramsay's work, a paperback original monograph, a companion volume and online resources, with a paperback selected poems to follow. The special journal issues planned include Studies in Scottish Literature, a gold open access pioneer, which had 170000 downloads in 2015 alone. This special number will focus both on the editing of Ramsay and his significance to Romanticism, Enlightenment, song collecting and ballad opera.
2. The academic and educational community in music.
How? Through the first study of the genesis and development of the music for Ramsay's song collecting, and through the recording of historically informed performances.
3. Schools.
How? through the dissemination of an advanced Edinburgh in the First Age of Enlightenment web resource by our partners in Education Scotland, and specifically through the songs and the 'Ramsay's Edinburgh' resources.
4. National institutions, the community in Penicuik and Edinburgh, tourists and the public
How? Through media, web resources, concert and song recordings, and through the Allan Ramsay Festival, the development of tourist trails and associated tourism and community economic benefit, and also via the National Library Treasures exhibition and National Gallery new £17M CAPEX development where PI is an advisor.
5. Public and charitable agencies and the third sector will benefit.
How? From exhibitions and their digital links, e.g. http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinburghenlightenment/) . The National Library of Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Museums are partners in an overall developing research strategy with the University of Glasgow chaired by the PI, presented to the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in Glasgow on 11 November 2016. It is the PI's intention that the Ramsay Project will share in the benefits of this development through partnership with the National Library of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland on the KE committee. New research underpinning £17M Scottish Galleries development will be available to 1.4M visitors a year.
6. The media.
How? The PI will set up a Comms strategy with the University of Glasgow Comms office. Media coverage will also provide an opportunity for project staff: the PI's RA on the Editing Burns project recently (February 2016) reached the top 5% of academia edu for media citation, while the PI has repeatedly had top 10 University of Glasgow quarterly media coverage stories from previous AHRC projects and has appeared in the media in 50 countries.
7. Practitioner groups and festivals such as TMSA (Traditional Music) and Celtic Connections.
How? The project's research on the origins of song tunes and their historically informed performance will widen traditional performers' repertoire. The PIs close engagement with Glasgow Life will support this dissemination.
8. The Scottish economy.
How? Through expanded cultural tourism to Ramsay and Edinburgh. The ' Ramsay's Edinburgh' section of the website (will be offered to VisitScotland (the PI knows the Head of Partnership Communications, Jenni Steele), who will also be engaged with the Ramsay trail development, now under way (first tranche launched at Ramsay Festival 2016). The PI's Royal Society of Edinburgh scoping project has already been adjudged as meeting Scottish Government priorities in tourism, international profile raising and economic development, while his previous research is now accessible via the Scottish Government's official welcome website: http://www.scotland.org/whats-on/burns-night/join-our-global-burns-celebration/
Publications

Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
(2021)
'Damage to trees': Performing Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd at Haddington Grammar School: A theory and its scholarly impac
in Theatre Notebook

Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
(2021)
'"Damage to trees": Performing Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd in Haddington Grammar School'
in Theatre Notebook

Brown R
(2018)
Self-Curation, Self-Editing and Audience Construction by Eighteenth-Century Scots Vernacular Poets
in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Brown R
(2020)
Networks of Sociability in Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly
in Studies in Scottish Literature

Brown, Rhona
(2018)
'The Afterlives of Allan Ramsay in the British Periodical Press, 1720-1870'
in Scottish Literary Review

Lamont C
(2020)
'Some Few Miles from Edinburgh': Commemorating the Scenes of The Gentle Shepherd in Ramsay Country
in Studies in Scottish Literature

Lamont Craig
(2023)
The Poetry and Drama of Allan Ramsay: (Scotnotes Study Guides)

Lamont, C.
(2018)
'Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh: Commemoration in the City of Forgetting'
in Scottish Literary Review

McGuinness, D
(2018)
Ramsay's Musical Sources
in Scottish Literary Review

McLean R
(2020)
'Compylit in Latin': Allan Ramsay and Scoto-Latinity in the Eighteenth Century
in Studies in Scottish Literature
Title | 'Allan Ramsay's edinburgh' |
Description | Concert, Sloane Ballroom Glasgow |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Large audience (c.100+) on going YouTube views. Example URL below. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcR_SdBWvFs |
Title | Allan Ramsay Festival Ceilidh with Concerto Caledonia |
Description | Recreated historic dance evening from 1720s with scenes from The Gentle Shepherd: Mhairi Lawson, Thomas Walker , Iona Fyfe performing, Allan Ramsay Hotel Carlops |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Spreading awareness of Ramsay in Scottish Borders: total involved c40 |
Title | Allan Ramsay Heritage Tour of Edinburgh |
Description | Literary tour of Edinburgh linked to key sites in the lives of Allan Ramsay, father and son (1684-1758; 1713-84) |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Use by Midlothian and Borders Tourism Action Group |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_573307_smxx.pdf |
Title | Allan Ramsay Treasures Exhibition, National Library of Scotland |
Description | Exhibition on Allan Ramsay scheduled to run for three months from 22.2.20, curtailed after one by Covid. Video dissemination from summer 2020 |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Raised awareness of Allan Ramsay but seriously impacted by pandemic |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hz1IY7XgPI&t=190s |
Title | Allan Ramsay's Edinburgh Tunes |
Description | Concert in Sloane's Ballroom Argyll Street Glasgow by Concerto Caledonia of Ramsay tunes |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Increasing realization of Ramsay's role in Scottish musical culture |
Title | Concerto Caledonia concert |
Description | Concert at 8th Congress of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on alcohol policy |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | None known |
Title | Concerto Caledonia period ceilidh; music of Allan Ramsay era concert |
Description | In 2016 as part of the Allan Ramsay Festival, a Historically Informed Performance Practice session of music and songs from Allan Ramsay and his contemporaries was produced; Robyn Stapleton (BBC Young Trad Musician of the Year 2014) was the lead singer. In 2018, Concerto Caledonia put on a 3 hour ceilidh of dances from between 1698 and 1723 performed in Edinburgh for the community round Penicuik as part of the Ramsay Festival. These dances (with a guide to the steps) were subsequently passed over into community use. |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | The Midlothian & Borders Tourism Action Group bid (successful) from the Ramsay Hotel for the development of a literary and cultural tour of the Borders, with music. |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinbu... |
Title | Early Music Trivia Night with Bach and Beethoven Ensemble |
Description | Discussion including Ramsay's music |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | None known |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnOWyu4A4-Y |
Title | Performance of Gentle Shepherd |
Description | A performance of highlights of Ramsay's ballad opera at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh hosting of the 8th European Conference on Alcohol |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Shepherds and Tea Tables |
Description | Concerto Caledonia performance of select Ramsay songs |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Wide availability of Ramsay songs with leading contemporary performers |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6nneaQBzyA&list=OLAK5uy_mM2JN8OYgODXXDx8Wb_BjaHdDN-DC7eB0 |
Title | Tea Tables and Shepherds |
Description | Concert at Vancouver Bach Festival |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The concert itself and its incorporation in the Bach Festival was an example of the overall project impact. |
Title | Virtual Tour of the Works of Allan Ramsay |
Description | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxhUFQkzuw and other records |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Greater knowledge of the writer |
Description | The role and reach of Allan Ramsay in the development of the Enlightenment (see the PI's Enlightenment in a Smart City, featured in Glasgow and Edinburgh Book Festivals, Royal Society of Arts Scotland special Smart City event, Aberdeen May Festival, lectures in Amiens, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, UC Berkeley) Findings and resources summed up at https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinburghenlightenment/ |
Exploitation Route | They already are being through a tourism development award via Midlothian & Borders Tourism Action Group They have also significantly advanced the scholarship and our understanding of the relation of music and poetry in Ramsay's work, also issues of classical, traditional or mixed styles of performance in ballad opera |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Creative Economy Education Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinburghenlightenment/ |
Description | To support the development of literary tourism in the Borders and Edinburgh In the Ramsay-related displays in the National Galleries of Scotland rehanging and painting restoration programme In identifying the provenance of the frame of Ramsay junior's portrait of Charles Edward Stuart To support the development of a wedding venue In international musical performance In incorporating Ramsay's songs into the BEd curriculum at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Creative Economy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
Description | Addition of Ramsay songs to B.Ed. programme in Traditional Music Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Introduction of Ramsay songs into schools |
Description | Barclays Bank: Glasgow Campus |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | This project was a consultancy to assess the historic names to be used in the development of Barclays Bank's new 5000-job fintech Glasgow Campus in Tradeston |
URL | https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19039872.barclays-university-glasgow-go-back-future-namin... |
Description | Incorporation of Ramsay music in B.Ed. course, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Allan Ramsay Festival |
Organisation | Allan Ramsay Hotel |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Support for Pub is the Hub application; KE support for exhibition, festivals, branding, pub decor; period ceilidh dances; dramatic and sung productions |
Collaborator Contribution | Hosting the dinner and providing KE publications and merchandise |
Impact | No research outputs |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | 'Edinburgh and Other Smart Cities of the Enlightenment: The Analogue Age of Data, Diversity and Adaptability, 1660-1750', Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 'Edinburgh and Other Smart Cities of the Enlightenment: The Analogue Age of Data, Diversity and Adaptability, 1660-1750', Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. Seminar paper in association with this project and KREAS EU grant: https://kreas.ff.cuni.cz/index.php/en/news-2/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/centre-for-british-commonwealth-studies/news/prof-murray-pittock-edinburgh-an... |
Description | 'Enlightenment in a Smart City: Then and Now', Royal Society of Arts blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Blog on Enlightenment in a Smart City |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/fellowship-news/fellowship-news/enlightenment-in-a-smart-city-then... |
Description | Allan Ramsay Festival: Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 4th Allan Ramsay Festival, supported by the Project, sponsored by Stewart's Brewery: dinner, concert, folk night, folk workshops. Support for development of museum exhibition in Ramsay Hotel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://scotconnected.co.uk/a-celebration-of-scottish-folk-music-at-the-allan-ramsay-festival-2019/ |
Description | Article on most underrated figure in Scottish History |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article for The Scotsman on Allan Ramsay as most underrated Scot |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Blog Romantic National Song Network |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CI Steve Newman: 16.8.19 , 'Scottish Pastoral', blog Romantic National Song Network |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://rnsn.glasgow.ac.uk/blog/ |
Description | Britain's Historical Towns: Edinburgh, Channel 4 8 December 2020, 1 million viewers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Britain's Historical Towns: Edinburgh, Channel 4 8 December 2020, 1 million viewers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Enlightenment in a Smart City event at Edinburgh Book Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Sellout event with audience of 300 at Edinburgh Book Festival on Enlightenment in a Smart City, 18 August 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/edinburgh-international-book-festival/edinburgh-international-book-f... |
Description | Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750: blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Edinburgh University Press blog- as above. 1709 views as at 2.20 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://euppublishingblog.com/2019/01/14/enlightenment-in-a-smart-city-edinburghs-civic-development-... |
Description | Lecture at National Gallery of Scotland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 1 December 2022: 'The Gentle Shepherd(ess): George Chalmers and the artistic language of Jacobitism'. Invited, National Gallery of Scotland (with private view). Public Lecture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Lecture on Enlightenment in a Smart City, Royal Society of Arts Scotland conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2019 Royal Society of Arts Scotland Conference, Edinburgh, chaired by former First Minister Henry McLeish with talks from CEO Matthew Taylor etc |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2019/06/rsa-scotland-annual-conference-2019 |
Description | Lecture, 'Enlightenment Secrets: Politics and the Art Trade in Scotland and Italy', Grenoble |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote lecture: 'Enlightenment Secrets: Politics and the Art Trade in Scotland and Italy', D'Ecosse, de France et d'Ailleurs: Pour une histoire transnationale des communautés étrangères dans l'Italie du XVIIIe siècle, Grenoble |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | National Library of Scotland Lecture: 'Why did the Scottish Enlightenment happen in Edinburgh?', |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture by National Library to accompany their Enlightenment exhibition |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-did-the-scottish-enlightenment-happen-in-edinburgh-tickets-624981... |
Description | Organization of Allan Ramsay Festival, 2016- Public lectures (Carlops, Penicuik House), Community ceilidh of pre 1725 Scottish dances with Concerto Caledonia, Scenes from the Gentle Shepherd in classical and trad form |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | See above in title line |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
Description | Performance of Gentle Shepherd songs at Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 8th European Conference on Alcohol Policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Performance of songs from The Gentle Shepherd at the Drugs and Alcohol Policy Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation on Enlightenment in a Smart City at Aye, Write ! (Glasgow Book Festival) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation and book launch and signing at Glasgow Book Festival, 23 March 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ayewrite.com/pages/event-details.aspx?event=1/murray-pittock |
Description | Project blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 20 Project blogs to date, one roughly every month since beginning of project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/pg/RamsayWorks/notes/?ref=page_internal |
Description | Project blogs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular project blogs on Allan Ramsay and the Edinburgh of his day by the project team |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinbu... |
Description | Public lecture on George Chalmers and Allan Ramsay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public lecture, Scottish National Gallery: released on Vimeo, 21 June 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Public paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk on The Many Adaptations of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd, [Live lecture, 17 January 2024] Society for Theatre Research, London, St Anne's Church Soho: https://www.str.org.uk/product/the-many-adaptations-of-allan-ramsays-the-gentle-shepherd-join-in-person/ (Society of Theatre Research) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Ramsay Panel, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This was a pre-recorded conference panel on Zoom, then subsequently distributed by blog to the British Association of Romantic Studies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxhUFQkzuw |
Description | Research Seminar University of St Andrews |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Paper on the performance and public outreach activities of the Ramsay project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Royal Society of Arts Lecture on Enlightenment in a Smart City, Aberdeen May festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Royal Society of Arts Lecture at Aberdeen May Festival, 25 May 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2019/05/scotland-fellowship-councillor-and-aberdeen-... |
Description | Sorbonne Research Seminar, Paris |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 'Edinburgh's Enlightenment, 1660-1750: the French Connexion' research seminar paper in context of my (virtual) visit to carry out an Habilitation exam at the Sorbonne |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://sfbh.hypotheses.org/1242 |
Description | Three short papers on the Ramsay edition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Conference Panel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2022 |