9.15 Welcome
9.30-11.00 Broad views: Chair, Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
Nick Draper (UCL)
Slavery and the country house: the state of play (skype)
Stephen Mullen (Glasgow)
The landed estates of Glasgow’s sugar aristocracy, 1775-1838
Marenka Thompson-Odlum (Glasgow)
Art of the country house: a case study of art collecting and Scottish West India merchants
11.00 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Borders case studies: Chair, Sally Tuckett (Glasgow)
Stana Nenadic (Edinburgh)
Harmony House and Abbotsford and the Jamaican slave plantation connection
Alastair Learmont (Edinburgh)
Green River and Roberton: the Scottish Border estates of James and William Chisholme
Fiona Salvesen Murrell/ Hermione Hoffman (Paxton House)
Paxton House
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-4.00 Colonial markets, goods, and people: Chair, Emma Hart (St Andrews)
Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)
Supplying the sugar colonies: William Forbes, coppersmith, and Callendar House
Tony Lewis (Glasgow Museums)
The homecoming: conspicuous consumption in country houses, or how to show off wealth – an 18th century legacy
James Caudle (Oxford Brookes)
James Boswell and the merchants of doubt
Hannah Lawrence (St Andrews and National Trust Scotland)
Acknowledging slavery connections in Scottish country houses: Why it is important
4.00 Tea
4.30-5.30 Comparisons: Chair, Diana Paton (Edinburgh)
Chris Jeppesen (UCL)
Growing up in a Company town: Caribbean and East Indian wealth in Hertfordshire
Finola O’Kane (UCD, Dublin)
Ireland and the Caribbean: Some comparative plantation perspectives from Jamaica, Mayo and Donegal
5.30 – 6.30 Lecture: Chair, Simon Newman (Glasgow)
Jim Walvin (York)
Slavery in small things: Evidence from inside the stately homes
6.30 Reception
All sessions will take place in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15 A George Square, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD.
Participation is free but places are limited. If you would like to attend please register with Elaine.philip@ed.ac.uk
Slavery and the Scottish Country House 