Scottish History Theses: Recent submissions
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The Glasgow City Improvement Trust : an analysis of its genesis, impact and legacy and an inventory of its buildings, 1866-1910
(University of St Andrews, 2003-09) - ThesisThis dissertation comprises a descriptive and analytical account of the workings of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust (from 1895, the Glasgow City Improvement Department), together with a comprehensive inventory of its ... -
The origins and development of the Scottish Parliament, 1249-1329
(University of St Andrews, 2002-11) - ThesisThis thesis examines the origins and development of Scottish parliaments between 1124 and 1329. Previous historians have judged that parliaments formed no place within Scotland before 1290 and no frequent roIe until the ... -
Employment of the steamship in the Scottish east coast trades to 1850
(University of St Andrews, 1996) - ThesisThe importance of the east of Scotland in the early use and development of the steamship appears to have been undervalued by most writers. A general description of the development of steam navigation before about 1850 ... -
Identities of class, locations of radicalism : popular politics in inter-war Scotland
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis explores the shifting political culture of inter-war Scotland and Britain via an examination of political identities and practice in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh. Drawing on the local and national archives ... -
Diplomacy & deception : King James VI of Scotland's foreign relations with Europe (c.1584-1603)
(University of St Andrews, 2014-10-23) - ThesisThis thesis is the first attempt to provide an assessment of Scottish-Jacobean foreign relations within a European context in the years before 1603. Moreover, it represents the only cohesive study of the events that formed ...