What is your family background? - Steve Murdoch

What is your family background? - Steve Murdoch

ID: SGI_STEVE_MURDOCH_Q_01 DESCRIPTION: As part of Homecoming Scotland 2009, a three-day international conference - Scotland's Global Impact - was held at Eden Court theatre, Inverness from 22-24 October. Prominent academics, historians and other experts came together to provoke healthy discussion on the history of migration and the influence of Scots abroad. Am Baile interviewed several of the speakers during the conference. Here, Dr Steve Murdoch answers the question: 'What is your family background?' 'My family background is Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. I was born in Aberdeen but moved back to Aberdeenshire when I was about 8.' Dr Steve Murdoch is Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include migration from the British Isles in the seventeenth century and all forms of interaction between early modern Scotland and the wider world. He has published extensively on the subject and his major publications include: 'Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660' (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000/2003) and 'Network North: Scottish Kin Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746' (Leiden: Brill, 2006). His major edited collections include 'Scotland and the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648' (Leiden: Brill, 2001) and with Alexia Grosjean, 'Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period' (Leiden: Brill, 2005). Also with Alexia Grosjean he has produced the widely acclaimed 'Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database.' PLACENAME: Inverness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona CREATOR (AV): Steve Murdoch DATE OF IMAGE: 2009 PERIOD: 2000s SOURCE: Am Baile COLLECTION: Scotland's Global Impact Asset ID: 39398