History (School of): Recent submissions
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“To promote some publick Good, by the Joint Endeavours of a Number of People” : hereditary societies in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1740-1810
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on the English, German, and Scottish societies in Philadelphia and Charleston from the 1740s until the 1810s. It argues the significance of early American charitable organizations in maintaining and ... -
How Arthurian knights fought : reading late medieval romances with fight books
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to depictions of fighting in late medieval chivalric romances by combining Arthurian literary studies with the emergent field of Historical European Martial Arts ... -
Radical ideas of political practice in 1780s and 1790s Britain
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines ideas about political tactics in 1780s and 1790s Britain. Edmund Burke characterised radicals in the aftermath of the French Revolution as speculative thinkers with no understanding of political ... -
'Tied up with pink ribbons' : repression, counterculture and Scottish national identity, c.1926-c.1967
(University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis unearths the radical debate about Scottish national identity that took place in Scotland between 1926 and 1967, and it labels this period the ‘Long Renaissance’. Employing the innovative lenses of culture, sex ... -
The career of Robert of Thurnham, 1191-1211
(2007-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis examines the career of Robert II of Thurnham a high ranking curial official, whose career in the royal service spanned the reigns of both Richard I [1189-1199] and John [1199-1216]. The thesis begins by ...