Modern History: Recent submissions

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    • Economic and financial strategies of the British Catholic community in the age of mercantilism, 1672-1781 

      Pizzoni, Giada (University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - Thesis
      This dissertation examines the British Catholic community during the Age of Mercantilism. It opens with John Aylward’s trade in the early 1670s and closes with the death of Bishop Richard Challoner in the late eighteenth ...

    • Lutheran piety and visual culture in the Duchy of Württemberg, 1534 – c. 1700 

      Watson, Róisín (University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - Thesis
      Early modern Lutherans, as is well known, worshipped in decorated churches. They adopted a path of reform that neither disposed of all ornament nor retained all the material trappings of the Catholic church. This thesis ...

    • Conciliar politics and administration in the reign of Henry VII 

      Ford, Lisa L. (University of St Andrews, 2001) - Thesis
      Since Elton's commentary on the absence of critical study of the early Tudor council in 1964, some progress has been made towards a wider, fuller, more detailed understanding of Henry VII's council and where it fits-or ...

    • Vernacular boats and boatbuilding in Greece 

      Damianidis, Kostas (University of St Andrews, 1991) - Thesis
      This work presents a study of the vernacular boats of modern Greece. A new typology of boats is offered, and an account is given of tools and boatyard practice, design and construction techniques. Evidence for these subjects ...

    • Service not self : the British Legion, 1921-1939 

      Barr, Niall J.A. (University of St Andrews, 1994) - Thesis
      The organisation of ex-service men into a mass membership movement was a new departure in British life. Four main groups came together in 1921 to form the British Legion. On its establishment, the leadership, who were ...