Modern History Theses: 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 ... -
'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 ... -
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 ...