Scottish History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Propaganda and persuasion in the early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557 

      Tapscott, Elizabeth L. (University of St Andrews, 2013-11-30) - Thesis
      The decades before the Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 witnessed the unprecedented use of a range of different media to disseminate the Protestant message and to shape beliefs and attitudes. By placing these works ...

    • The impact of the Union of 1707 on early eighteenth-century Fife electoral politics, 1707-1747 

      Deatherage, Janet V. (University of St Andrews, 2006) - Thesis
      In an unprecedented act of peaceful, albeit contentious, statesmanship, the 1707 Treaty of Union joined Scotland and England into one sovereign country. Now governed by the Parliament of Great Britain, Scotland was allowed ...

    • A biographical and critical study of the life and writings of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes 

      Carnie, Robert Hay (University of St Andrews, 1954) - Thesis
      The name of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes has always been known to students of Scottish history by reason of his "Annals of Scotland", long accepted as a fundamental reference book for that period of Scottish history ...

    • The apocalyptic tradition in Scotland, 1588-1688 

      Drinnon, David A. (University of St Andrews, 2013-06) - Thesis
      Throughout the seventeenth century, numerous Scots became convinced that the major political and religious upheavals of their age signified the fulfillment of, or further unfolding of, the vivid prophecies described in the ...

    • The minority of King James V, 1513-1528 

      Emond, William Kevin (University of St Andrews, 1989) - Thesis
      The thesis is a detailed study of Scottish central government institutions, personnel and policies during the long and politically complex minority of James V 1513-1528. Research has been undertaken principally in the ...