Richard D. Oram is a Scottish historian specializing in medieval and environmental history. His work delves into the historical relationship between people and the landscape, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Oram seeks to illuminate how environmental factors have shaped historical events and societies, while also exploring how human activities have influenced the natural world over centuries. His research contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between humanity and nature in historical contexts.
The craze for photography ripped through Scotland like a whirlwind following its invention in 1839. This book is the story of the rural and urban poor, and the Clearances that drove people from the land to seek work in the cities or new hope in emigration to the New World.
Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World. Viking Empires is a definitive history of the Viking World and the first study of the global implications of its expansion, integration, and reorientation. From the first contact in the 790s the book traces the political, military, social, cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Viking raiders, Scandinavian Kingdoms and the wider world; 2. The Beginnings; 3. First contact: England and the continent; 4. Ireland and Scotland; 5. A Water World; 6. Conquest and integration, c. 950-1260; 7. The second Viking age in England, c. 970-1066; 8. The Irish Sea; 9. Scotland and the Vikings; 10. Orkney and Shetland; 11. Crossing the North Atlantic; 12. Sailing the North Atlantic; 13. Scandinavia and European integration: reform and rebirth; 14. Conclusion.