Professor Steve Boardman outlines how his course ‘Lord of the Isles’ explores the origins, development and eventual demise of one of the most powerful and distinctive aristocratic lordships active in Britain and Ireland in the late medieval period.

It is part of the online MSc History programme at the University of Edinburgh. Find out more at www.shca.ed.ac.uk/online-history

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