Scottish History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • The control of infectious diseases in Fife, c. 1855-1950 

      Patterson, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 1989) - Thesis
      This thesis is a study-of the contribution of public health administration to the control of Infectious diseases in Fife during the period c. 1855-1950. It is a local study in the social history of medicine which attempts ...

    • The 'Chronicle of Perth': an historical and archaeological study 

      Eagles, Jonathan L. M. (University of St Andrews, 1995) - Thesis
      This thesis features a full transcript of NLS Advocates MS. 35.4.4, The "Chronicle of Perth". The manuscript volume was edited and published by James Maidment in 1831 for the Maitland Club of Glasgow; however, Maidment's ...

    • Crown-magnate relations in the personal rule of James V, 1528-1542 

      Cameron, James S. (University of St Andrews, 1995) - Thesis
      In terms of general interest, James V has suffered by comparison with his more famous father, James IV, and his internationally renowned daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. Yet his reign is an important one, embracing ...

    • His Majesty's advocate : Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713) and Covenanter resistance theory under the Restoration monarchy 

      Beisner, E. Calvin (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      This thesis is the first to explore the life and political thought of Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713). The first part reviews the life of his father, Sir James Stewart of Kirk field (1608-1681) to 1661, and ...

    • Law and order in Stirlingshire, 1637-1747 

      Davies, Stephen J. (University of St Andrews, 1984) - Thesis
      Scotland in the early modern period was an overwhelmingly rural society, made of largely self-sufficient communities based on the unit of the estate. This society had a legal system which was decentralised, had a large ...