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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Scottish History"”.
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Change and Transition in a Professional Scots Family 1650-1900
… generalisations around much of the writing of Scottish history usually refer to the particular as a source of illustration, the methodology of this study reversed that focus and linked the family experience to the high level narrative.<br/>The research examined what factors drove the …
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Women’s organisations and feminism in interwar Scotland
… Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (EWCA); the Scottish Cooperative Women’s Guild (the Guild), which was a largely based in urban working-class areas; and finally the Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes (the Rurals), which provides a rural comparison. Therefore a range of geographical and …
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Gypsies in Early Modern Scotland, c.1570-c.1700
… to intense persecution and stigmatisation by Scottish authorities, yet nevertheless maintained their way of life at society’s margins throughout the period. In historiographical terms, Scottish Gypsies have also proven academically marginal, both in relation to the extant literature on early …
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'Now of little significancy'? The Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1651-1688
… of research in other, related areas of Scottish history in the same period. This thesis helps to resolve this problem in demonstrating the importance of the convention in the period 1651- 1688 in two main areas whilst having much wider significance for understanding later …
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Scottish Noblewomen, the Family and Scottish Politics from 1688-1707
The Scottish perspective of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 has received limited scholarly attention. The opposite is true of the Union of 1707 and this defining moment, which resulted in the loss of Scottish independence, continues to stimulate debate. The lives of Scottish noblewomen in the years …
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The impact of Irish nationalism on central Scotland, 1898-1939
… to 1939 were momentous ones for both Irish and Scottish history. The rise of Sinn Fein, the impact of the First World War and the Easter Rising, followed by the formation of the Irish Free State in 1921 and Eire in 1937 all occurred within these forty or so years. This thesis explores the nature …
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Ancestral voices: philological nationalism in the British Romantic period
… century was to situate language in human history. The Enlightenment reduced long-enshrined institutions such as monarchy, religion, and language to human constructions subject to change. The language theory emerging from this framework was concerned with exploring the human origins and …
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Reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820
… the Enlightenment, and traditional ideas about Scottish education and literacy. From a methodological viewpoint, reading as an activity at this time is often little recorded, frequently invisible in surviving historical records. Nevertheless, enough evidence exists for it to be studied …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
The fin de siècle was a time of change in nationalism, culture, art, science and religion. Nations and groups grew into defining themselves through movements such as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Some groups sought to define themselves through reviving aspects of their old cultures as …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… to the study of material culture and social history. However, this thesis shows how heterogeneous inventories found in early modern Scottish sources resist quantification and aggregation. Instead, qualitative use of inventory evidence is advocated. Inventories can contribute information on …
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Practices and performances of queenship: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533
… studies, which has combined women’s and gender history with the study of international court culture and politics. This study argues that the particular type of female authority available to queens in monarchical, dynastic regimes must be understood by considering the practices and performances …