Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- British Civil Wars (1639-1660)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
#Dyslexic in several languages. ..
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Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- British Civil Wars (1639-1660)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
#Dyslexic in several languages.
Steve Murdoch is an academic and writer. He is author on the history of Scotland and the Wider World in general and of Scotland and Scandinavia in particular. His monographs include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000/2003); Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006) and the book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010). In 2014 he published the co-authored book Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. He has edited several volumes including Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2000) and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005). This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE). .. more
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Read it all about him and the subject here: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/02/24/s...
Caution, the rest of the article is in #Doric / #Scots but siccar youse'll manage
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A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
Populist goverments and newsprogrammes who platform them.
#AsylumSeekers #Labour are #Tories
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Still, v pleased we have a sovereign but poor govt now.
So smart for people to double down on their Brexit investment, vote REFUK & properly destroy the UK economy by getting rid of clever migrants. ๐๐ช
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"We grieve because we love. We grieve because we care. We grieve because we know that the machines do not, and that the community we try to foster -- on campus, in the classroom, in our scholarly works -- is threatened with erasure."
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#LestWeForget #WWI #WWII #MilHist #Skystorians
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Conscription in the Periphery: Privileges, Distinctions, and Military Recruitment in the Swedish Lappmark, 1812-1853.
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Date: 12 Nov
Time: 15:00CET
Location: RAAB or Zoom (DM for link)
I get it. I am an "end of career" academic. But if you're in fear of calling out genocide then the world is in deeper shit than we think.
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Ping me an email
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More info in the link
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Burned by the Jacobites, 1746.
A certain poetry......