Vietnamese Boat people in 1984: image courtesy of Wikimedia commons I’ve been teaching a course on ‘Refugees in modern world history’ for several years and I wrote a book as a result – see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198744474.do). Never has the subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here are a few short observations about what…

CONGRATULATIONS are due to our own Dr Allan Kennedy, who has won the prestigious Frank Watson Book Prize 2015 for his first book, Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State. 1660-1688 (Leiden, 2014). The prize is given every two years by the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, to…

Contemporary image of the ceremonial opening of Scottish Parliament in 1707. Emile Lousse Prize, 2015 Awarded annually for the best article published in the journal Parliaments, Estates and Representation by a scholar under the age of 40. Dr Allan Kennedy is joint winner of the prize for his article ‘Representing the Periphery: Highland Commissioners in the Seventeenth-Century Scottish…