Awardees | 2025

Viccy Coltman

 Viccy is professor of eighteenth-century history of art at the University of Edinburgh and a distinguished scholar in the field of material culture—what she affectionately terms “knick-knack” history. She is the author of three monographs and the editor of two further volumes, and currently leads an exciting new book series with Edinburgh University Press, Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland. While Viccy’s research focuses on Scotland from the Jacobite risings through to Walter Scott, her work consistently reaches beyond North Britain to explore the role of Scots in London, in Europe, and across the expanding British Empire. She is particularly attuned to the ways visual and material culture articulate identity, power, and mobility. During her time at the YCBA, she will be working on her current book project, a cultural history of Scottish officers and Highland regiments during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815). 

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