Institute of Scottish Historical Research (ISHR): Recent submissions
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Livery and dule : dressing life and death in the late medieval Scottish royal household
(University of St Andrews, 2021-07-01) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of meaningful and symbolic dress at the late medieval Scottish royal court, arguing that group displays of colour-coded clothing, exemplified by livery and mourning dress, played key political ... -
‘This distressing malady’ : childbirth and mental illness in Scotland 1820 – 1930
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-25) - ThesisMy thesis explores the experiences of women who suffered from mental disorder related to childbirth and pregnancy, looking in particular at Dundee, Fife and Forfarshire in the north-east of Scotland, during the period 1820 ... -
Spines of the thistle : the popular constituency of the Jacobite Rising in 1745-6
(University of St Andrews, 2016-04-19) - ThesisThis thesis examines the social record of popular Jacobitism during the 1745 Rising as expressed through its plebeian constituency. Such an assessment fills in the gaps largely ignored by scholars of the Jacobite period, ... -
To walk upon the grass : the impact of the University of St Andrews' Lady Literate in Arts, 1877-1892
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisIn 1877 the University of St Andrews initiated a unique qualification, the Lady Literate in Arts, which came into existence initially as the LA, the Literate in Arts, a higher certificate available to women only. Awarded ... -
Propaganda and persuasion in the early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - ThesisThe decades before the Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 witnessed the unprecedented use of a range of different media to disseminate the Protestant message and to shape beliefs and attitudes. By placing these works ...