If you emigrated today, what would you miss from home? - Andrew Mackillop

If you emigrated today, what would you miss from home? - Andrew Mackillop

ID: AB_SGI_07_ANDREW_MACKILLOP_Q_07 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. In this audio extract, Dr Andrew Mackillop answers the question: 'If you were emigrating today what would you miss most from home?' 'Well, I suppose, it's a, it's a bit of a trite answer but, in a sense, I consider home very much to be Harris and therefore, in a sense, I am away from it. And what I miss is, is, I miss the, the kind of familiar sense of knowing lots of people in a small community, and the sort of very familiar landscape that I grew up in that kind of speaks eloquently to me of my childhood, and if I was not to see that again, that's what I would miss more than anything else, is that sense of being very much at home within a community and landscape that reminds me of my past, I suppose. That would hard, I think. So, it that sense it would be - the familiar.' BIOGRAPHY Dr Andrew Mackillop is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen. Publications on Highland history include: 'More Fruitful than the Soil': Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (East Linton, 2000) and 'The Political Culture of the Scottish Highlands from Culloden to Waterloo', The Historical Journal, 46 (2003). His research interests currently centre upon the differing experiences of the Scots, Irish and Welsh in the Asian hemisphere of British imperialism during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His most recent publication, 'A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union', Scottish Historical Review, 87 (2008) will be followed at the end of this year by, "A Reticent People?': The Welsh in Asia, 1700-1815', in Huw Bowen (ed.), Wales and the British Empire (Manchester, 2009) and, as co-editor with Micheál O' Siochrú, Forging the State: European State Formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 (Dundee, 2009). PLACENAME: Inverness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona CREATOR (AV): Andrew Mackillop DATE OF RECORDING: 2009 PERIOD: 2000s SOURCE: Am Baile COLLECTION: Scotland's Global Impact Asset ID: 41053 KEYWORDS: