About the Journal

Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been in existence since 1972. Initially produced by the University of Aberdeen, it was relaunched latterly by the UHI Centre for History and Aberdeen University. Since 2016, its institutional supporters have been UHI, the Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures and Centre for Scottish Culture. It is a fully peer-reviewed publication whose editorial board, contributors, reviewers and referees are drawn from a wide range of experts across the world. While it carries material of a mainly historical nature, from the earliest times to the modern era, it is a cross-disciplinary publication, which also addresses cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of Scotland. It contains substantial articles and book reviews, as well as interviews and reports of research projects in progress. It actively supports cutting edge and early career work, in all relevant disciplines, via its annual essay competition, 'The rising star essay in land futures', which showcases the best new work being pursued today.

Centre for History, UHI: https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-history

Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures: www.scotlandslandfutures.org

Centre for Scottish Culture: https://dundeescottishculture.org/

A complete index to the first series ofNorthern Scotland from volume 1 (1972-3) is available here.