This page collects the project team’s various podcasts and recordings from conferences and other events. Links are provided to full details of each event.
Postgraduate Masterclass in the History of Emotions, Courtship and Marriage, c. 1650-2000
12 September 2015 | Event Details
Part of our recent international symposium was a Postgraduate Masterclass on the history of emotions, courtship and marriage, which attracted Masters and PhD students also currently working in this field. The opportunity to discuss their research with a panel of historical experts was greatly appreciated by all attendees, as was the opportunity to probe the minds of our panel. This session offered the chance to engage with related themes, concepts, discourses and sources, in order to better understand how the historian might skilfully navigate narratives of love, romance, courtship, and sexuality.
The panel was made of the following international academics:
- Katie Barclay, Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide
- Helene Carlbäck, Associate Professor in History, Södertörn University
- Julie Hardwick, Professor of History, University of Texas
- Jeff Meek, from the AHRC Project, A History of Working-Class Marriage in Scotland
- Penny Morris, Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow
- Julia Moses, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield
- Mary O’Dowd Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast
- Christina Simmons, Professor Emeritus of History and Women’s Studies, University of Windsor
- Andrea Thomson, from the AHRC Project, A History of Working-Class Marriage in Scotland
- Ruth Vanita, Professor of Liberal Studies, University of Montana
- Garthine Walker, Reader in History, Cardiff University
Dialogues with Scotland’s History of Domestic Abuse
20 June 2014 | Event details
Hidden Voices
Chair: Alex Shepard
Kirsty Calderwood, Children’s Coordinator, The CEDAR Project, ‘Breaking the Secret: Domestic abuse recovery with Cedar Glasgow’
Rosemary Elliot and Annmarie Hughes, University of Glasgow, ‘Bad Girls’ or ‘Child Outrages’? Exploring Female Adolescent Sexual Exploitation in Glasgow c.1900-1920’
Brain Dempsey, AMIS, University of Dundee, ‘Hearing the voices of men who experience domestic abuse’
Public Voices
Chair: Jeff Meek
Meagan Butler, University of Glasgow, ‘Presenting Experiences of Domestic Abuse in the Public Arena in the Nineteenth Century’
Lesley Orr, Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, ‘”Rocking the Status Quo”: Women’s Aid Voices from the Edge, 1973 – 1980’
Smina Akhtar, Director of AMINA, The Muslim Women’s Resource Centre, ‘What Islam says about Violence Against Women’
‘What Islam says about Violence against Women’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QwR_cxPqqE
Their Voices
Chair: Rosemary Elliot
Andrea Thomson, University of Glasgow, ‘Hearing ‘Silent’ History: Learning from women’s accounts of domestic abuse in late twentieth-century Scotland’
Nel Whiting, Learning and Development Coordinator at Scottish Women’s Aid, ‘Future Directions’
Plenary
Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin
Chair: Annmarie Hughes
Beyond tradition?: Non-traditional marriage, partnerships and the family in Scotland, past and present
6 May 2013 | Event details
Plenary
Professor Lynn Jamieson, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, ‘Continuity and Change in Family Life and Intimate Relationships.’

Irregular Marriage and Cohabitation Past and Present
Eleanor Gordon, Professor of Social and Gender History, University of Glasgow, ‘Informal unions in the past: official attitudes and popular practice.’

Dr Jane Mair, School of Law, University of Glasgow, ‘Living Together at Bed Board: A Modern Relationship?’

Children in Families Past and Present
Felicity Cawley, PhD student, The History of Working-Class Marriage (AHRC–funded project), University of Glasgow, ‘Experiencing the Non-traditional: Childhood and the non-conventional family in twentieth century Scotland.’
Marion Davis, Policy and Research Advisor, One Parent Families Scotland, ‘Lone Parents – Exploding the Myths.’

Same Sex Unions Past and Present
Dr Jeff Meek, The History of Working –Class Marriage (AHRC–funded project), University of Glasgow, ‘“Oh, let the Buggers marry!”: Non-heterosexual men, partnerships and families in post-war Scotland.’

Dr Anna Einarsdottir, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and HRM, Business School, University of Hull, ‘”My family”, “your family” and “our family”: Young civil partners and family life in Scotland.’

Heather Walker, author of LGBT Pathways to Parenthood, ‘LGBT pathways to parenthood: the recent, personal stories of some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Scotland.’

Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
8 March 2012 | Event details
Domestic Abuse and the Law
Effecting change in the legal response to domestic abuse
Clare Connelly, University of Glasgow, School of Law
The Family Home: a Private Refuge?
Jane Mair, University of Glasgow
Service Provision for Domestic Abuse Survivors
What Aid? Certainly Not “Women’s Aid”: Social Work and Abused Wives in Scotland, c1850-1950
Annmarie Hughes, University of Glasgow
The Professionalisation of Activism – the impact of regulation on feminist organisations
Linda Rodgers, Scottish Women’s Aid
Children’s Experiences of Domestic Abuse
More like a football than a human being’: the plight of children between neglect and welfare in early 20th Century Scotland
Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow
A balancing act: parents in trouble, children in need and the right to family life
Frankie McCarthy, University of Glasgow
Domestic Abuse – Women’s Voices
Hearing hidden voices: Scottish women’s experience of domestic abuse in late twentieth-century Scotland
Andrea Thompson, University of Glasgow
From “battered wives” to “coercive control”: 35 years of understanding domestic abuse in Scotland
Nel Whiting, Scottish Women’s Aid
Professor Eleanor Gordon on Irregular Marriage
Listen to Professor Eleanor Gordon’s podcast on the history of irregular marriage in Scotland.