History (School of): Recent submissions
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Educating girls : the case of Carlotta de Saxy - a transnational educator and reformer at the intersection between Milan, Lombardy, and the Habsburg Empire, c.1760s-1805
(2022-11-30) - ThesisDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth century, education, from the hands of religious congregations, single clergymen, as well as private citizens, became codified, unified, and public. Although these developments would ... -
Patterns of commemoration in central Italy : manuscript calendars and social time in Perugia, Assisi and Gubbio, c. 1100–1500
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of medieval calendars as commemorative devices. Medieval calendars were practical and open-ended texts that could remain in use for several generations, accumulating layers of modification ... -
'Those scandalous prints' : caricatures of the elite in France and Britain, c.1740-1795
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis explores caricatures of elite individuals produced in France and Britain between 1740 and 1795. It argues that the urban public spheres of France and Britain were increasingly critical of the elite in this ... -
The typewriter trade in Scotland, from the 1870s to 1920s
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis explores the typewriter trade in Scotland from the 1870s to the 1920s. It analyses the businesses and individuals involved in the marketing, sale and use of writing machines, revealing the processes by which ... -
Living with the burden of illegitimacy in the society of mediaeval England in the late twelfth – early fourteenth century
(2022-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis examines how those who were considered bastards by the society of England in the period ca. 1200 – 1350 were affected by their birth status, by seeking answers to questions about the place illegitimates had ...