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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.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
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View maps website: http://www.nls.uk/maps
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