In 1558 George Gordon the Lord Conservator for the Scottish Community in Veere in the Netherlands described the arrival of 17 Scottish ships in one trading fleet from Scotland. By 1600 ten percent of Veere’s population of 4000 were Scottish, with a Scottish kirk and special judicial and trading privileges. It was a similar situation in Gdansk where the traces of Scottish settlement remain in the gravestones of their churches and in street names. It is thought over 20.000 Scotsmen were living in Poland in the early 17th Century of whom Robert Porteous writer of Krosno was a prominent and successful example.
Dr Anna Groundwater, Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the National Museums of Scotland will explore East Coast Scotland’s intimate and profitable mercantile networks and communities in northern Europe pre-1700.
Speaker
Dr Anna Groundwater, Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the National Museums of Scotland
Dr Groundwater is the author of several publications on Scottish History with a particular interest in the material culture of Renaissance and Early Modern Scotland; the blood feud; networks and communities; Anglo-Scottish relations; public and participatory history and mapping the modern world. Her role in the National Museum is management and overall curation of the material culture and history of Scotland from 1450-1750.
Booking details to be confirmed.
