Welcome to the Scottish Society for Northern Studies Website (SSNS)

About the Society

The Society is a Scottish-based group having much in common with the Viking Society for Northern Research.

It was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish cultures and provides a forum in Scotland for specialists and enthusiasts of many disciplines to pursue their common ‘northern’ interests.

Through its seminars, conferences and publications, the Scottish Society for Northern Studies seeks to encourage further exploration and research, locally throughout Scotland and beyond.

Features of the website include information on how to join the Society or renew membership, details of past and future events, entry information on the student essay prize and details of Society publications. There is also a searchable database containing an index of the contents of every volume of the Northern Studies journal.

Contact Details:

All communications by ordinary post should be sent, please, to:

Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS)
c/o Celtic and Scottish Studies
27 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Scotland, UK

Emails:

John Baldwinjohn.baldwin@:ed.ac.uk
[Conference programmes, Partnerships, Future publications]

Linda Riddell john.baldwin@:ed.ac.uk
[Committee papers, Membership mailings, General correspondence/enquiries]

Alan Calder alancalder@btinternet.com
[Finance, Membership, Conference bookings/publications orders]

Steve Murdoch sm117@st-andrews.ac.uk
[General Editor: Northern Studies]

Sarah Thomas s.thomas@abdn.ac.uk
[Magnus Magnusson Essay Prize, Co-editor Northern Studies]

Alan Macniven alan.macniven@ed.ac.uk
[Islay conference 2012]

Other committee members & volunteers:

Donald Adamson
Peter Anderson
Martin & Wendy Axford
Erin Farley
Elizabeth Petrie
Molly Rorke
Tom Turpie
Alex Woolf
Kathrin Zickermann

STOP PRESS:

The Society’s next conference publication, Historic Bute: Land and People, is expected in the spring of 2012. Edited by Anna Ritchie, It contains papers from the Society’s 2010 conference on Bute.