An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Jack Abernethy (National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
The Scottish Merchant Community in Amsterdam in its European Context, c.1603-1707
Scottish communities in the Dutch Republic were central to wider Scottish networks in North Europe during the early modern period. While previous studies have focused on the importance of Rotterdam and Veere to Scotland and Scots, it is surprising that as yet there has been no such study afforded to Scotland’s relationship with one of the most important European and global entrepots of the seventeenth century: Amsterdam. This presentation will outline some of the provisional findings I have made during my IASH-NMS fellowship, placing the Scottish merchant community’s networks of trade and migration into a wider context of Scotland’s connections with early modern Europe and its migrant communities during the seventeenth century.
Meeting ID: 384 971 962 716 1
Passcode: nV6Rg79e