History (School of): Recent submissions

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    • The English provincial book trade : bookseller stock-lists, c.1520-1640 

      Winters, Jennifer (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London’s publishers wholly dominated the production of books, and with Oxford and Cambridge the booksellers of the capital also played the largest ...

    • The apocalyptic tradition in Scotland, 1588-1688 

      Drinnon, David A. (University of St Andrews, 2013-06) - Thesis
      Throughout the seventeenth century, numerous Scots became convinced that the major political and religious upheavals of their age signified the fulfillment of, or further unfolding of, the vivid prophecies described in the ...

    • Scripts and politics in modern Central Europe 

      Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik (2012) - Journal article
      At present two scripts are employed in Central Europe, Latin and Cyrillic, or three,if we include Greece in the region. In this article I set out to problematise this oversimplisticpicture drawing at examples from the past ...

    • Shaping popular culture : radio broadcasting, mass entertainment and the work of the BBC Variety Department, 1933-1967 

      Dibbs, Martin G. R. (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the extent to which the BBC was able to shape the output of popular culture on radio in Britain, according to its own system of beliefs, between the years 1933 and 1967. This research will show that ...

    • Gender and violence in Gregory of Tours' 'Decem libri historiarum' 

      McRobbie, Jennifer (University of St Andrews, 2012) - Thesis
      The Decem Libri Historiarum of Gregory of Tours, our only coherent narrative source for the latter half of the sixth century in Gaul, has been the subject of much lively scholarly debate as to its reliability and original ...