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Subject:        Military mapping of Scotland - research studentship
Date:   Thu, 11 May 2006 16:09:37 -0600
From:   Sam Otterstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Christopher Fleet [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 10 May 2006


[With apologies to those on the lis-maps and maphist lists who may have
seen this already...]

The University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography and the National
Library of Scotland Map Library are pleased to announce a collaborative
research studentship on:

'Constructing the Military Landscape: the Board of Ordnance Maps and
Plans of Scotland, c.1707-c.1815'.

The studentship, which is full-time and funded for 3 years by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council, will begin in October 2006 and will be
jointly supervised by Professor Charles Withers (University of
Edinburgh) and Mr Chris Fleet (National Library of Scotland).

The PhD will examine an internationally significant body of material on
the militarised landscapes of Scotland, the Board of Ordnance maps and
plans between c.1707 and c.1815. Although attention has been paid to
Scotland before c.1707, and some 18thC military landscape plans from the
Board of Ordnance have been digitised as part of another NLS-Edinburgh
University collaborative project
http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html), little attention
has been paid to the maps and plans of the Board of Ordnance relating to
eighteenth-century Scotland - sources which depict the construction,
representation and contestation of military landscapes as spaces and
documents of power, authority and access. The collections include plans,
profiles and views of a diverse range of subjects such as
fortifications, towns, battles, roads, clans and their associated
archival records.

Further information about the studentship, and details of how to apply
(by 16 June 2006), can be obtained through the link at the top of the
page: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geography/pg/human/ with specific details
at: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geography/pg/human/AHRC.doc

Chris Fleet
Deputy Map Curator
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH
EH9 1SL
United Kingdom.