Richard Oram
Biographic Data
| ID | 414799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Oram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Oram |
| SIGNATURE | ORAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2224-0948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes
This study concerns Deaf parents whose primary language is British Sign Language (BSL) and who are assessed as part of safeguarding and child protection processes. Seven Deaf-specialist professionals were interviewed in BSL about their experiences of usual practice with Child and Family Social workers who have little or no experience of child protection investigation and safeguarding assessments involving Deaf BSL users. The Interpretative Phenom…
Standing at the crossroads
Focussing on Deaf parents using British Sign Language (BSL) in England, this article shares perspectives of Child and Family social work practitioners (CFSWs) across a large urban area, through the lens of cultural competence. In an under-researched field, it explores linguistic and cultural aspects of working with Deaf parents, for whom English is not their first language, in the specific context of parenting assessments in child safeguarding pr…
Scotland’s Environmental Histories
This introduction sets the scene for the special issue, laying out its overarching aims and approach in order to contextualise the highly diverse range of methodologies, evidence and data, chronologies and themes that follow in the articles. We set out the ways in which as a discipline we can explore the place of historical analysis in providing empirical data to better inform approaches to pressing contemporary climate and environmental concerns…
Now you see them, now you don’t
This paper concerns parenting assessments which are integral to child-safeguarding professional processes in England, and which involve Deaf parents whose primary language is British Sign Language (BSL). In an under-researched area of social work, the research aim was to contribute to the existing literature by eliciting the practice wisdom of specialist professionals. Specifically, it draws upon their linguistic and cultural knowledge of the Dea…
Ishbel Barnes, Arbroath Abbey and its Abbots
Soil and spatial analyses in the assessment of the focal point of the extinct medieval royal burgh of Roxburgh
When I speak people look at me
Deaf people's lives are predicated to some extent on working with sign language interpreters. The self is translated on a regular basis and is a long-term state of being. Identity becomes known and performed through the translated self in many interactions, especially at work. (Hearing) others' experience of deaf people, largely formed indirectly through the use of sign language interpreters, is rarely understood as intercultural or from a socioc…
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290
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Holy Blood devotion in later medieval Scotland
Of the Christocentric devotions which achieved widespread popularity in later medieval Scotland, the cult of the Holy Blood gained the greatest prominence. Strong Scottish connections with the blood-relic centres at Bruges and, to a lesser extent, Wilsnack, primarily established by Scotland’s urban merchant class, provided the conduit for the development of the cult in the east coast burghs from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The cu…
Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. Archaeological Investigations 1930–90, by Peter White and Alan Cook
"Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. Archaeological Investigations 1930–90, by Peter White and Alan Cook." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), pp. 387–388
The Border Towers of Scotland 2
The Border Towers of Scotland 2: Their Evolution and Architecture." Medieval Archaeology, 60(1), p. 196
How to Read Castles
The worst disaster suffered by the people of Scotland in recorded history
Informing historical and archaeological discourse with environmental data culled from documentary and climate proxy records is transforming understanding of political, social economic and cultural change across the North Atlantic and European Atlantic regions generally. Limited record evidence and region-specific proxy data has hindered engagement by historians of medieval Scotland with the exploration of environmental factors as motors for long …
Early European Castles
Eldbotle; the archaeology and environmental history of a medieval rural settlement in East Lothian
Excavations on the Archerfield Estate, East Lothian, have uncovered evidence in the form of buildings and enclosures, for the lost village of Eldbotle, a settlement which was in use from the 5th century AD to the 18th century, but at its peak during the 13th and 14th centuries. Excavated rural settlements of this date are rare in Scotland so this has been used as a rare opportunity to explore the impact of national political and environmental eve…
Gogar, archaeological and historical evidence for a lost medieval parish near Edinburgh
The parish of Gogar, located just to the west of Edinburgh, ceased to exist shortly after theReformation. The name ‘Gogar’ survives in various modern place-names but extensive recentdevelopment has obliterated most of the historic topography of the former parish. Redevelopmentof the site of the former Gogarburn Hospital for the new global headquarters of the Royal Bank ofScotland led to archaeological investigations in 2003 that identified part o…
Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
The great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all…
Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland
Clare Downham Edinburgh, Dunedin Academic Press, 2007 xxii + 338 pp., £25.00, ISBN 978‐1‐903765‐89‐0 Since Alfred Smyth completed his Scandinavian York and Dublin in 1979 only a few book‐length stu
Royal and Lordly Residence in Scotland c 1050 to c 1250
Academic study of eleventh- to thirteenth-century high-status residence in Scotland has been largely bypassed by English debates over origin, function and symbolism. Archaeologists have also been slow to engage with three decades of historical revision of the traditional socioeconomic, cultural and political models upon which their interpretations of royal and lordly residence have drawn. Scottish castle studies concerned with the pre-1250 era co…
Medieval Roxburgh
Little surface trace now remains of the royal burgh of Roxburgh in the Scottish Borders, which flourished between the 12th and 15th centuries AD. By the early 16th century it had been abandoned. Documentary sources, maps, topographical analysis and aerial photography have been brought together in a preliminary attempt to define the burgh’s location, defences, internal morphology, historical and environmental contexts, and associated extramural fe…
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400
Whilst there has been an increasing recognition of the influence of natural agency on human society in Scotland in the medieval period, conventional historiography has generally presented the wholesale reconfiguration of structures of secular lordship in the Scottish central Highlands in the 14th century as an essentially political consequence of the socio-political dislocation associated with the Anglo-Scottish wars that occurred after 1296. The…
Excavations at Gilmerton Cove, Edinburgh, 2002
A research project was undertaken at Gilmerton Cove, Edinburgh by CFA Archaeology Ltd in advance of its development as a visitor attraction by City of Edinburgh Council. Historical research indicates that the Cove was built in the early 18th century. Excavation revealed hitherto unknown details of the layout of the Cove, including the presence of features cut into the rock floors; a well or cistern; a sump; and a second entrance
Copsey, Carmel in Britain
"It cannot be decernit quha are clean and quha are foulle ." Responses to Epidemic Disease in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Scotland
En comparaison avec la recherche effectuée en Angleterre et sur le continent européen, la recherche sur l'impact en Écosse des épidémies sur l'économie, la société et la culture du XVIe siècle et du début du XVIIe siècle, n'a pas avancé significativement depuis les années 60. En effet, les discussions récentes réutilisent souvent la recherche des années 30 et 50. L'absence de recherche d'importance récente au sujet de la peste, ainsi que la dépen…
Watt, Medieval Church Councils in Scotland
When I speak people look at me
Deaf people's lives are predicated to some extent on working with sign language interpreters. The self is translated on a regular basis and is a long-term state of being. Identity becomes known and performed through the translated self in many interactions, especially at work. (Hearing) others' experience of deaf people, largely formed indirectly through the use of sign language interpreters, is rarely understood as intercultural or from a socioc…
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400
Whilst there has been an increasing recognition of the influence of natural agency on human society in Scotland in the medieval period, conventional historiography has generally presented the wholesale reconfiguration of structures of secular lordship in the Scottish central Highlands in the 14th century as an essentially political consequence of the socio-political dislocation associated with the Anglo-Scottish wars that occurred after 1296. The…
Royal and Lordly Residence in Scotland c 1050 to c 1250
Academic study of eleventh- to thirteenth-century high-status residence in Scotland has been largely bypassed by English debates over origin, function and symbolism. Archaeologists have also been slow to engage with three decades of historical revision of the traditional socioeconomic, cultural and political models upon which their interpretations of royal and lordly residence have drawn. Scottish castle studies concerned with the pre-1250 era co…
The worst disaster suffered by the people of Scotland in recorded history
Informing historical and archaeological discourse with environmental data culled from documentary and climate proxy records is transforming understanding of political, social economic and cultural change across the North Atlantic and European Atlantic regions generally. Limited record evidence and region-specific proxy data has hindered engagement by historians of medieval Scotland with the exploration of environmental factors as motors for long …
The Last Word
Management, Staff, and Administration
A Family Business? Colonisation and Settlement in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Galloway
This article critiques the traditional model presented for the processes governing the introduction of 'Anglo-Norman' colonists of knightly rank into twelfth- and thirteenth-century Galloway, challenging the view that this was a process of imposition by external agencies and representative of a process of conquest. It examines the relationship of these colonial families with the native rulers of Galloway and proposes instead that a majority of th…
Shorter notice. William the Lion, 1143-1214. Kingship and Culture. DDR Owen
Journal Article Shorter notice. William the Lion, 1143-1214. Kingship and Culture. DDR Owen Get access RD Oram RD Oram University of Aberdeen, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Pages 410–411, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.410 Published: 01 April 1999
David I and the Scottish Conquest and Colonisation of Moray
Medieval accounts of the expansion of the authority of the Scottish crown into northern and western mainland districts in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries present the process as an inevitable realisation of ancient rights of lordship over all the territory which we now recognise as Scottish. 1 What they describe is essentially a military conquest accompanied by intrusive colonisation. As a consequence, historians have until recently interpret…
Ferguson, Medieval Papal Representatives in Scotland
Driscoll, Yeoman, et al., Excavations within Edinburgh Castle
Watt, Medieval Church Councils in Scotland
"It cannot be decernit quha are clean and quha are foulle ." Responses to Epidemic Disease in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Scotland
En comparaison avec la recherche effectuée en Angleterre et sur le continent européen, la recherche sur l'impact en Écosse des épidémies sur l'économie, la société et la culture du XVIe siècle et du début du XVIIe siècle, n'a pas avancé significativement depuis les années 60. En effet, les discussions récentes réutilisent souvent la recherche des années 30 et 50. L'absence de recherche d'importance récente au sujet de la peste, ainsi que la dépen…
Excavations at Gilmerton Cove, Edinburgh, 2002
A research project was undertaken at Gilmerton Cove, Edinburgh by CFA Archaeology Ltd in advance of its development as a visitor attraction by City of Edinburgh Council. Historical research indicates that the Cove was built in the early 18th century. Excavation revealed hitherto unknown details of the layout of the Cove, including the presence of features cut into the rock floors; a well or cistern; a sump; and a second entrance
Copsey, Carmel in Britain
Royal and Lordly Residence in Scotland c 1050 to c 1250
Academic study of eleventh- to thirteenth-century high-status residence in Scotland has been largely bypassed by English debates over origin, function and symbolism. Archaeologists have also been slow to engage with three decades of historical revision of the traditional socioeconomic, cultural and political models upon which their interpretations of royal and lordly residence have drawn. Scottish castle studies concerned with the pre-1250 era co…
Medieval Roxburgh
Little surface trace now remains of the royal burgh of Roxburgh in the Scottish Borders, which flourished between the 12th and 15th centuries AD. By the early 16th century it had been abandoned. Documentary sources, maps, topographical analysis and aerial photography have been brought together in a preliminary attempt to define the burgh’s location, defences, internal morphology, historical and environmental contexts, and associated extramural fe…
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400
Whilst there has been an increasing recognition of the influence of natural agency on human society in Scotland in the medieval period, conventional historiography has generally presented the wholesale reconfiguration of structures of secular lordship in the Scottish central Highlands in the 14th century as an essentially political consequence of the socio-political dislocation associated with the Anglo-Scottish wars that occurred after 1296. The…
Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland
Clare Downham Edinburgh, Dunedin Academic Press, 2007 xxii + 338 pp., £25.00, ISBN 978‐1‐903765‐89‐0 Since Alfred Smyth completed his Scandinavian York and Dublin in 1979 only a few book‐length stu
Gogar, archaeological and historical evidence for a lost medieval parish near Edinburgh
The parish of Gogar, located just to the west of Edinburgh, ceased to exist shortly after theReformation. The name ‘Gogar’ survives in various modern place-names but extensive recentdevelopment has obliterated most of the historic topography of the former parish. Redevelopmentof the site of the former Gogarburn Hospital for the new global headquarters of the Royal Bank ofScotland led to archaeological investigations in 2003 that identified part o…
Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
The great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all…
Early European Castles
Eldbotle; the archaeology and environmental history of a medieval rural settlement in East Lothian
Excavations on the Archerfield Estate, East Lothian, have uncovered evidence in the form of buildings and enclosures, for the lost village of Eldbotle, a settlement which was in use from the 5th century AD to the 18th century, but at its peak during the 13th and 14th centuries. Excavated rural settlements of this date are rare in Scotland so this has been used as a rare opportunity to explore the impact of national political and environmental eve…
How to Read Castles
The worst disaster suffered by the people of Scotland in recorded history
Informing historical and archaeological discourse with environmental data culled from documentary and climate proxy records is transforming understanding of political, social economic and cultural change across the North Atlantic and European Atlantic regions generally. Limited record evidence and region-specific proxy data has hindered engagement by historians of medieval Scotland with the exploration of environmental factors as motors for long …
Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. Archaeological Investigations 1930–90, by Peter White and Alan Cook
"Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. Archaeological Investigations 1930–90, by Peter White and Alan Cook." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), pp. 387–388
The Border Towers of Scotland 2
The Border Towers of Scotland 2: Their Evolution and Architecture." Medieval Archaeology, 60(1), p. 196
Holy Blood devotion in later medieval Scotland
Of the Christocentric devotions which achieved widespread popularity in later medieval Scotland, the cult of the Holy Blood gained the greatest prominence. Strong Scottish connections with the blood-relic centres at Bruges and, to a lesser extent, Wilsnack, primarily established by Scotland’s urban merchant class, provided the conduit for the development of the cult in the east coast burghs from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The cu…
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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