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Research

Professor Worthington's main research focus is on Scottish (and wider British and Irish) ties with Poland and other parts of early modern Central Europe, while, in recent years, he has researched and published also in a totally new area, coastal history. Emerging from that, in spring of 2016, he hosted the Firths and Fjords conference here in Dornoch, the first ever coastal history conference, and the biggest ever academic gathering to have taken place in the town.

Professor Worthington welcomes proposals from current or potential research students in all of the following areas:

• Scotland and central Europe in the early modern period
• Early modern coastal history
• Social and cultural history of the early modern Scottish 杏吧原创 
• Pre-1707 Scottish engagements and entanglements with European empire and Atlantic slavery
• British and Irish emigration and travel in the early modern period
• Scottish-Polish links in history and memory

Publications

Monographs

Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709): A New Perspective on the Scotttish 杏吧原创 Before Culloden (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2023) (see the  for this book) 

British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2012) (see the for the book, which contains extracts from numerous reviews as well as a , an online and )

Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (Brill: Leiden, 2003) (see the and )

Edited Volumes

The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017) (see the and a )

British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Brill: Leiden, 2009) (see the , and a

Selected Journal Articles

'The Multilingual Minister: Languages and Code-Switching in the Life-Writing of Scottish Highland Scholar and Traveller, Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709)', Renaissance Studies, 37(1), (2023), pp.57-74  available open access via the 

'Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish 杏吧原创 before 1707', Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 44(1), (2019), pp.3-20 available online via the

The Settlements of the Beauly-Wick Coast and the Historiography of the Moray Firth', The Scottish Historical Review, 95(2), (2016), pp.139-163 available via the (and )

'Ferries in the Firthlands: Communications, Society and Culture Along a Northern Scottish Rural Coast (c.1600-1809)', Rural History, 27(2) (2016), pp.129-148 available via the (and )

鈥�"Unfinished Work and Damaged Materials": Historians and the Scots in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania (1569-1795)', Immigrants & Minorities, 20(10) (2015), pp.1-19 available via the (and )

'"All our Dear Countrymen"? British and Irish Expatriates East of the Rhine as Recorded in the Triennial Travels of James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709)', Britain and the World, 6(1) (2013), pp. 48-63 available via the (and )

'A Northern Scottish Maritime Region: The Moray Firth in the Seventeenth Century', in The International Journal of Maritime History, 23(2) (2011), pp. 181-210 available via the (and )

鈥楳igration and Diaspora in European history prior to 1650: The Scottish and Irish Cases鈥� in Kultura, Historia, Globalizacja, iii (2008) []

鈥楾he 1688 Correspondence of Nicholas Taaffe, Second Earl of Carlingford (d.1690) from the Imperial Court in Vienna鈥� in Archivium Hibernicum, Journal of the Catholic Record Society of Ireland, lviii, (2004), pp. 174-209 [available via JSTOR]

鈥楾owards a Bibliography of the Irish in the Holy Roman Empire, 1618-48鈥�, in Archivium Hibernicum, Journal of the Catholic Record Society of Ireland, lvi, (2002), pp. 206-27 [available via JSTOR]

Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes

鈥楾he Scots in Poland in Memory and History鈥�, in Piotr 艁opatkiewicz ed., Robert Wojciech Portius de Lanxeth - kro艣nie艅ski mieszczanin, kupiec i fundator (Robert Portius de Lanxeth: Krosno Resident, Merchant and Benefactor), (Krosno, 2019), pp. 8-28.

鈥樷�淢en of Noe Credit鈥�? Scottish Highlanders in Poland-Lithuania, c.1500-1800鈥� in T.M. Devine and David Hesse eds., Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010 (Edinburgh, 2011), pp. 91-108.

鈥楲eslies in Central and Northern Europe During and After the Thirty Years鈥� War鈥�, co-authored with Steve Murdoch, Alexia Grosjean and Paul Dukes in Ivo Barte膷ek, Milo拧 Kou艡il and Zden臎k 艩amberger eds., Ad Honorem Josef Poli拧ensk媒, 1915-2001 (Prague, 2007), pp. 350-369.

鈥楢spects of the Literary Activity of the Irish Franciscans in Prague, 1620-1786鈥�, co-authored with M铆che谩l MacCraith OFM., in Thomas O鈥機onnor and Mary Ann Lyons eds., Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602-1820 (Dublin, 2003), pp.118-34.

鈥樷�淥n the High Post-Way between Vienna and Venice鈥�: The Leslie Family in Slovenia鈥� in Polona Vidmar ed., Zapu拧膷ina rodbine Leslie na ptujskem gradu (Ptuj, 2002), pp. 81-6.

鈥楢lternative Diplomacy? Scottish Exiles at the Courts of the Habsburgs and their Allies, 1618 to 1648鈥�, in Steve Murdoch ed., Scotland and the Thirty Years鈥� War, (Leiden, 2001), pp. 55-71.

Teaching

Since joining 杏吧原创, Professor Worthington has taught on upwards of twenty modules. As a programme leader from 2009-18, he led on the validation and launch of the BA (Hons) History and Politics (2010), and also Scotland's first ever online masters-level history degree, the MLitt History of the 杏吧原创 and Islands (2011). Following that, he oversaw the creation of the MLitt History and the MLitt History and Archaeology of the 杏吧原创 and Islands (2014) and another new degree, the MLitt Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (2017), the first degree of its kind, which was validated as part of the taught-postgraduate History scheme that same year.

As of 2022, he is Module Leader for:

• Third-Year
  • Scots in Poland, Poles in Scotland
  • Alps, Hills and Plain? Central Europe to 1918
• Fourth-Year
  • Reform, Rupture and Resistance: Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
  • The Scottish 杏吧原创 Before Culloden: 1603-1707
• MLitt
  • Darkness, Division and Discord? The 杏吧原创, 1603-1707
  • Rivers, Ports and Coasts in European History
  • Sport in Highland History

Additional activities

Current plans include continuing his public history work on the Reverend James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), and exploring another project looking at memory relating to Scottish emigrants in late medieval and early-modern Poland (this connects also with the Facebook page, and its Twitter equivalent ). Professor Worthington's work on sport in the 杏吧原创 and a further project - involving public talks, teaching, research and publications - on the Coastal History of the , overlap.

In spring of 2016, he hosted 'Firths and Fjords' the first-ever coastal history conference and the biggest and most ambitious academic conference ever to have taken place in Dornoch. It was a community-focused event which explored historical communities situated along adjacent, or near adjacent littorals, attracted considerable media and press activity, aided by extensive use of the #firths2016 hashtag. This inspired the development of the , the 'Firths and Fjords' page, the and , and will lead to further publication, public lectures and knowledge exchange in this area, from a comparative perspective. In the spring of 2018, in Dornoch, he , a scholar of coastal and maritime literature from Clatsop Community College in Oregon, USA. Funded by the Fulbright Specialist Programme, Julie gave seminars, school workshops, public lectures, film screenings (in Balintore, Dornoch and Inverness) and student mentoring, in the field of public history, as well as on coastal and maritime culture and literature of the sea. In 2020, he instigated the Coastal History Network, a regular, global, online gathering of what is now 170-plus scholars.

Coasts are the location where people's engagement with (and capture of) the Atlantic Salmon has been most profound. In October 2017, he became lead supervisor for Jane Thomas, holder of an ESF-funded PhD studentship exploring historical and archaeological evidence for the commercial and cultural position of salmon in the Scottish 杏吧原创 and Islands, c.1500-1800.

Within 杏吧原创, Professor Worthington sits on:

• Academic Council (Teaching Staff Representative)
• Subject Network Committee for Humanities & Gaelic 
• Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee
• 杏吧原创 - High Life Highland (HLH) advisory group.

He also chairs the 杏吧原创-HLH sub-group for the 'Inverness Castle Project' the largest heritage development in the 杏吧原创 for over a century, and sits on the overall Castle Project delivery group, chaired by Highland Council. Externally, Professor Worthington is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Poland, a Peer Assessor for both the Carnegie Trust and for the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), a member of the editorial board for Northern Scotland, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Prof Worthington was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in 2023.