History (School of): Recent submissions
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Via brocardica : the development of brocards and the Western European legal tradition (c. 1160 - c. 1215)
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis examines the historical development and the significance of a legal literary genre, brocards, from its birth in the 1160s until the stabilisation of brocardic collections around 1215. In particular, this work ... -
Anglo-papal relations, c.1066-c.1135
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the relationship between the kingdom of England and the papacy during the reigns of William the Conqueror and his sons. It will act as the first comprehensive reconsideration of Anglo-papal relations ... -
Public botanic gardens and the early institutionalisation of science : Edinburgh, Florence, and Pisa in the second half of the eighteenth century
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis is a comparative study of four botanic gardens in Scotland and Tuscany in the second half of the eighteenth century. Taking an approach based on case studies, it argues that botanic gardens were early examples ... -
The militant shop floor : radical industrial action in the United Kingdom, 1969-1977
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThe Ulster Workers Council (UWC) in 1974 was a powerful demonstration of militant trade unionism and the ability of trade unionists to deliver significant changes to government policy. The UWC should not be considered a ... -
He remains an Englishman? : masculine nostalgia and the perception of the German threat in mid-Victorian and Edwardian England
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the prevalence, pertinence, and potency of a recurrent gender discourse in mid-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England: masculine nostalgia. Nostalgic views of the national past abounded ...