Hugh Cheape

Biographic Data

ID3485713
NAMEHugh Cheape
GIVEN NAMESHugh
FAMILY NAMECheape
SIGNATURECHEAPE H
AFFILIATIONSNational Museums Scotland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • The Carrying Stream Flows On: Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of the School of Scottish Studies

    Open AccessJohn Randall, Margaret A Mackay et al.BOOKThe Carrying Stream Flows On:…2013

    The School of Scottish Studies came into being at the University of Edinburgh in 1951 as a research unit dedicated to ‘the study and conservation of the folk culture of Scotland’ when Professor Angus McIntosh was enabled to turn a vision which he and others had long held into reality. In that year Calum Iain Maclean was seconded from the Irish Folklore Commission to continue his collecting in Scotland, while other pioneers such as Hamish Henderso…

  • ‘Cuir siud sa’ Ghàidhlig’: Toradh na h-obrach aig Fear Chanaigh

    Open AccessHugh CheapeCHAPTERThe Carrying Stream Flows On:…2013

    The School of Scottish Studies came into being at the University of Edinburgh in 1951 as a research unit dedicated to ‘the study and conservation of the folk culture of Scotland’ when Professor Angus McIntosh was enabled to turn a vision which he and others had long held into reality. In that year Calum Iain Maclean was seconded from the Irish Folklore Commission to continue his collecting in Scotland, while other pioneers such as Hamish Henderso…

  • Alexander Fenton

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2013

    Alexander – ‘Sandy’ – Fenton was a scholar and teacher who has had a profound influence on many areas of Scottish and European studies and museums, not least through the extensive corpus of his written and published work

  • The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and their Museum: Scotland’s National Collection and a National Discourse

    Open AccessHugh CheapeARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010Cited by: 1

  • Heritage and the Environment

    Hugh Cheape, Mary‐cate Garden et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2009Cited by: 1References: 1

  • History in the Re-Telling

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEFolk Life2007References: 1

  • Lecture summaries 2003–2004

    Ann Woodward, A T Welfare et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2005

    Six lecture summaries:Ritual and relics in Early Bronze Age BritainThe Recumbent Stone Circles of north-east Scotland: recent fieldwork by RCAHMS‘The collection was, indeed, a curious one’: Sir Walter Scott, Abbotsford and the National Museums of ScotlandAn architectural approach to ‘standing archaeology’Faience in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland: scotching a mythShetland, Steatite and Trade in the Norse North Atlantic: 800–1400

  • For the Betterment of Mankind: Scotland, the Enlightenment and the Agricultural Revolution

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEFolk Life2001Cited by: 1

    Here I stand at what is called the ‘Cross of Edinburgh’, and can, in a few minutes, take fifty men of genius and learning by the hand.This intriguing and impressive observation from a learned Englishman in the 1770s was recorded by the Edinburgh printer, antiquary and biographer, William Smellie. The latter half of the eighteenth century is regarded as a period that saw an extraordinary outburst of intellectual activity now identified by historia…

  • Longboats in history: West Highland evidence

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2000

    This short study re-examines a material culture topic hitherto investigated mainly through archaeology. It is a regional study drawing on lexical and traditional information and adding a dimension to archaeological explanations of the phenomenon of logboats. Modern scholarship suggests that ancient techniques and an ancient boat-type made out of the hollowed trunks of large trees are, according to available evidence and scientific methods of anal…

  • The Piper to the Laird of Grant

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1996

    Considers an early eighteenth-century portrait as a document of social and cultural history. Two appendices provide documentary evidence (1171--2)

  • Shielings in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Prehistory to the Present

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEFolk Life1996Cited by: 3

    Shielings and the shieling system belong to a widespread European custom often defined within the term ‘transhumance’, a specific form of cattle-herding culture involving the summer pasturing of cattle on upland grazings. The shieling system has survived into the present day in Norway, in the northern provinces of Sweden, to a certain extent in Finland, and in many areas of the highlands of Central Europe. It was well known in Britain and in the …

  • A Song on the Lowland Shepherds: Popular Reaction to the Highland Clearances

    Open AccessHugh CheapeARTICLEScottish Economic & Social History1995

  • The Red Book of Appin: Medicine as Magic and Magic as Medicine

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEFolklore1993Cited by: 2

    (1993). The Red Book of Appin: Medicine as Magic and Magic as Medicine. Folklore: Vol. 104, No. 1-2, pp. 111-123

  • Rosc: Review of Scottish Culture

    Caoimhin O Danachair, Alexander Fenton et al.ARTICLEBéaloideas1985

  • Questionnaires and the Grain Harvest in Scotland

    Hugh CheapeARTICLEFolk Life1978

    The questionnaire system has become familiar in specialized academic fields and is used as a research method, for example, in the social sciences. Perhaps generally inapplicable in historical studies, nevertheless it is worth considering its uses and some of its possible implications in a period when aims and methods of history are always being critically examined. The system as a method of research in an academic sphere has been used successfull…