Scottish History Theses: Recent submissions
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To walk upon the grass : the impact of the University of St Andrews' Lady Literate in Arts, 1877-1892
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisIn 1877 the University of St Andrews initiated a unique qualification, the Lady Literate in Arts, which came into existence initially as the LA, the Literate in Arts, a higher certificate available to women only. Awarded ... -
Scottish commercial contacts with the Iberian world, 1581-1730
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThis thesis analyses the commercial relations between Scotland and the geo-political area known as the Iberian world in the early modern period. Despite being geographically one of the largest areas of Europe, as well as ... -
The Reformation in the burgh of St Andrews : property, piety and power
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis thesis examines the impact of the Reformation on the estates of ecclesiastical institutions and officials based in St Andrews. It argues that land and wealth were redistributed and power structures torn apart, as ... -
Ethnonyms in the place-names of Scotland and the Border counties of England
(University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - ThesisThis study has collected and analysed a database of place-names containing potential ethnonymic elements. Competing models of ethnicity are investigated and applied to names about which there is reasonable confidence. A ... -
Female petty crime in Dundee, 1865-1925 : alcohol, prostitution and recidivism in a Scottish city
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisLate-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Dundee had a strikingly large female workforce and this fact has attracted much scholarly attention. But existing research has not probed the official crime records to determine ...