Scottish History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Scottish colonization before Darien : opportunities and opposition in the union of the crowns 

      Wagner, Joseph (University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - Thesis
      This thesis aims to provide a detailed account of Scottish colonisation efforts in the seventeenth century. In the first place, it seeks to provide an update to the only book-length study of the topic, George Pratt Insh’s ...

    • Robert Burns in Scottish politics (1914-2014) 

      Malgrati, Paul Edmond André (University of St Andrews, 2020-07-30) - Thesis
      The present thesis considers the political legacy of Robert Burns in twentieth and twenty-first century Scotland, explaining how iconoclastic, left-wing, and nationalist interpretations of the poet have grown in prominence ...

    • 'An ugly epoch' : male sexual violence in interwar Scotland, 1918-1930 

      Heren, Louise (University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - Thesis
      This thesis examines social and judicial attitudes towards sexual violence in Scotland between November 1918 and December 1930. Based on a survey of over 700 sexual violence cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary, ...

    • The Episcopal Church of Scotland, 1660-1685 

      Carter, Andrew Paterson (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - Thesis
      The restoration of episcopacy in the Church of Scotland in 1661 was a deeply divisive event, sparking the resignation of around a quarter of the clergy and initiating a large dissenting movement of presbyterians. This ...

    • Principal Sir James Donaldson : education and political patronage in Victorian Scotland 

      Scott Lowson, Albert (University of St Andrews, 1988-07-07) - Thesis
      This thesis evaluates the career of James Donaldson whose life spans the long ascendancy of the Liberal Party in Scotland. Particular attention is accorded his contribution to Scottish education - at primary, secondary ...