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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Union of the Crowns"”.
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The emergence of modern civil police in Scotland: a case study of the police and systems of police in Edinburghshire 1800-1833
The Police in Britain have been a focus for academic research over a number of decades but there is a dearth of historic authority about the service north of the border. Lack of information is lamentable, for Scotland through its own legal institutions entrenched in the Treaty of Union, has …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… with surviving artefacts contributing 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. …
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The origin and organization of the covenanting movement during the reign of Charles I, 1625-41: with a particular reference to the West of Scotland
… articulated by Robert Baillie, minister of Kilwinning in Ayrshire (and subsequently principal of the university of Glasgow), the apprehensions which motivated the Scots to promulgate the National Covenant on 28 February 1638, were as much nationalist as religious. The primary purpose of …