Scottish History: Recent submissions

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    • Heart-work: emotion, empowerment and authority in covenanting times 

      Yeoman, Louise Anderson (University of St Andrews, 1991) - Thesis
      'Heart-work' is an examination of the inner world of the covenanters; particularly with regard to authority, empowerment and affective experience. It examines the covenanting phenomenon of conversion, which placed believers ...

    • Older people in Scotland : family, work and retirement and the Welfare State from 1845 to 1999 

      Black, Elizabeth Leslie (University of St Andrews, 2008-06-26) - Thesis
      The social and economic experiences of older people in Scotland over the past two centuries provides a particularised lens through which larger themes of change and adaptation may be analysed. Older age cohorts are examined ...

    • The Scottish timber trade, 1680 to 1800 

      Thomson, Alan (University of St Andrews, 1991) - Thesis
      'The Scottish timber trade, 1680 to 1800' examines the structural change in the source, level and form of Scotland's imports of softwood timber between 1680 and 1800. The thesis is divided into geographical and chronological ...

    • Politics and the feud in late mediaeval Scotland 

      Boardman, Stephen I. (University of St Andrews, 1990) - Thesis
      From the mid-fifteenth century onwards, the Scottish aristocratic community made increasing use of formal bonds of lordship, service and friendship. The first section of this thesis examines the relationship between formal ...

    • Freemasonry in Edinburgh, 1721-1746 : institutions and context 

      Kahler, Lisa (University of St Andrews, 1998) - Thesis
      It was not until after the mid-eighteenth century that the masonic lodges in Edinburgh became common meeting ground for the social and intellectual elite. While there are examples of these types of men joining before 1750, ...