Dr Catriona M M Macdonald

Reader in Late Modern Scottish history (History)

telephone: 0141 330 7776
email: Catriona.MacDonald@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 306, 9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223

Research interests

Dr Macdonald is Reader in Late Modern Scottish History.

Research interests

Socio-political and cultural history of Scotland from 1832.

Scottish Studies: interdisciplinary studies of late-modern Scottish society and culture (principally literature).
Scottish historiography.
History of Scottish education.

Current projects

Evolution of Scottish historiography after 1832.
History of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 1901-1925.

Publications

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2024

MacDonald, Catriona M M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2024) The Caledoniad: the Making of Scottish History. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780859767200

MacDonald, Catriona M. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2024) Contesting the Reformation: Roger Mason's ('sufficiently plausible') debt to David Hay Fleming and Andrew Lang. In: Reid, Steven (ed.) Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland. Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 22-40.

MacDonald, Catriona M. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2024) A tracked and hunted creature’: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Histories of David Hay Fleming, Andrew Lang, Gordon Donaldson and Antonia Fraser. In: Reid, Steven (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 179-196. ISBN 9781399523554

2023

MacDonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2023) Andrew Lang and the cosmopolitan condition. In: Kidd, Colin (ed.) Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish intellectual life, 1790-1914. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474493055

MacDonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 and Whatley, Christopher (2023) ‘We’ll ne’er forget the people’: Burns and politics, 1796-1945. In: Carruthers, Gerard (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns. Oxford University Press. (In Press)

2022

MacDonald, Catriona M. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2022) 'The ebbing of the old shallow tide': the civil context of the Radical War (1820). In: Carruthers, Gerard, Gallagher, Kevin Thomas, Lamont, Craig and Smith, George (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781910900833

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2022) 'Making patterns with facts': unmaking history in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Stoddart, Helen (eds.) The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark. ASLS: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980335

MacDonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2022) Region and nation: Scotland's role in the making and un-making of British history. In: Hirbodian, Sigrid, Jörg, Christian and Wegner, Tjark (eds.) Zwischen Region, Nation und Europa: Landesgeschichte in europaischer Perspektive. Jan Thorbecke Verlag: Ostfildern, pp. 105-116. ISBN 9783799513845

2018

MacDonald, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2018) Rogue element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British history. In: Carruthers, Gerard and Kidd, Colin (eds.) Literature and Union. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198736233

MacDonald, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2018) Genre and gender: Dorothy Dunnett and the making of Scottish popular history in a global context. In: Dye, Sierra, Ewen, Elizabeth and Glaze, Alice (eds.) Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad. Series: Guelph Series in Scottish Studies (4). University of Guelph: Guelph, Ontario. ISBN 9780889556355

2016

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2016) Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond: popular histories of Scotland’s martial past. In: Plain, Gill (ed.) Myth, Memory and the First World War in Scotland: The Legacy of Bannockburn. Bucknell Press: Lewisburg, pp. 143-166. ISBN 9781611487787

MacDonald, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2016) "Matters of heart-searching to the pioneers”: Andrew Dewar Gibb and Scottish nationalism, 1930-1961. In: Mitchell, James and Hassan, Gerry (eds.) Scottish National Party Leaders. Biteback, pp. 105-125. ISBN 9781785900921

Macdonald, Catriona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2016) Scotland and the first world war: identity, nationhood and legacy. In: Elvert, J., Aschmann, B., Denzel, M.A., Kusber, J., Scholtyseck, J. and Stamm-Kuhlmann, T. (eds.) Die Erste Weiltkrieg: Regionale Perspektiven. Series: Historische Mitteilungen (28). Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, pp. 44-58. ISBN 9783515113960

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2016) The fierce urgency of now: conjecture and the limits of Scottish history. Journal of Scottish Thought, 8, pp. 8-18.

2015

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2015) Alba Mater: Scottish university students, 1889-1945. In: Anderson, R.D., Freeman, M. and Paterson, L. (eds.) The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 286-303. ISBN 9780748679157

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2015) Andrew Lang and Scottish historiography: taking on tradition. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 207-236. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2015.0257)

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2015) 'Keep you eye on Paisley': a personal post-referendum reflection. Drouth, 50, pp. 86-95.

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2015) The 'Scotch accent of mind': historicising the referendum. In: Müller, Klaus Peter (ed.) Scotland 2014 and Beyond: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence. Series: Scottish studies international: publications of the Scottish studies centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim (39). Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 55-70. ISBN 9783631655719

2014

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 and Ditchburn, David (2014) Bannockburn, world war 1 and the referendum. Scottish Historical Review, 93(237), pp. 161-170. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2014.0213)

MacDonald, Catriona M. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2014) Montrose and modern memory: the literary after-life of the first marquis of Montrose. Scottish Literary Review, 6(1), pp. 1-27. (doi: 10.1353/slr.2014.0006)

2013

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Challenging the stereotype: the role of Scottish women in the Great War. History Scotland, 13(4), pp. 24-29.

Carruthers, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-9797 and Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Fictive pasts and past fictions. Scottish Historical Review, 92(1), pp. 137-166. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2013.0171)

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Framing thoughts of Scottish independence during the Interregnum. Drouth, 45, pp. 10-19.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) History and the heritage aesthetic. In: Baillie, R. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (eds.) The Nation/Live: Work/Union/Faith/Civil War/Roots. National Galleries of Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 11-15.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Thoughts of Scottish independence during the Interregnum: contingency, circumstance and the claims of pasts (and poets). In: Cameron, A. (ed.) Essays on Scottish Independence. Series: Rants. Vagabond Voices: Glasgow, UK. (In Press)

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 and Smout, T.C. (2013) A Ford Anglia, fish stocks, and the French Revolution: reading the future in the past: T.C. Smout talks to Catriona Macdonald. Perspectives, 35, pp. 19-24.

2012

Arnott, M. and Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2012) More than a name: the Union in Conservative rhetoric and policy. In: Torrance, D. (ed.) The Scottish Conservative Party: From Unionist Scotland to Political Wilderness. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748646869

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2012) Rhetoric, place and performance: students and the heritage of the Scottish universities, 1880-1945. In: Robertson, I.J.M. (ed.) Heritage from Below. Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, pp. 59-74. ISBN 9780754673569

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2012) Imagining the Scottish diaspora: emigration and transnational literature in the late modern period. Britain and the World, 5(1), pp. 12-42. (doi: 10.3366/brw.2012.0033)

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2012) Gender and nationhood in modern Scottish historiography. In: Devine, T.M. and Wormald, J. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199563692

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2012) Touching memories: Scotland since 1914. In: Cowan, Edward J. (ed.) Why Scottish History Matters. Saltire Society: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780854111084

2009

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2009) To form citizens: Scottish students, governance and politics, 1884-1948. History of Education, 38(3), pp. 383-402. (doi: 10.1080/00467600902855439)

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2009) Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906566081

2008

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2008) A different Commonwealth: The Co-operative movement in Scotland up to 1924. In: Mulhern, M.A., Beech, J. and Thompson, E. (eds.) The Working Life of Scots. Series: Scottish Life and Society (7). John Donald (Birlinn) in association with the European Ethnological Research Centre: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781904607854

2006

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2006) The Church and the cradle?: baptism and visions of childhood in Victorian Scotland. Review of Scottish Culture, 18, pp. 51-72.

2005

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2005) Scottish Labour 1918 to 1945: following the procession. In: Worley, M. (ed.) Labour's Grass Roots: Essays on the Activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918 to 1945. Series: Studies in Labour history. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, pp. 33-54. ISBN 9780754640073

2004

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2004) ‘Wersh the wine o’ victorie’: writing Scotland’s Second World War. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 24(2), pp. 105-112. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2004.24.2.105)

2002

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2002) Abandoned and beastly?: the 'Queen Caroline Affair', in Scotland. In: Brown, Y.G. and Ferguson, R. (eds.) Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK, pp. 101-113. ISBN 9781862322950

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2002) 'Their laurels wither'd and their name forgot': women and the Scottish radical tradition. In: Cowan, E.J. and Finlay, R.J. (eds.) Scottish History, the Power of the Past. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 225-252. ISBN 9780748614196

2000

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2000) The Radical Thread: Political Change in Scotland, Paisley Politics, 1885-1924. Series: Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series, 7. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK. ISBN 9781862321410

1999

MacDonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 and McFarland, E.W. (Eds.) (1999) Scotland and the Great War. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK. ISBN 9781862320567

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1999) May 1915: race, representation and riot. In: Macdonald, C.M.M. and McFarland, E.W. (eds.) Scotland and the Great War. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK, pp. 145-172. ISBN 9781862320567

1998

MacDonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (Ed.) (1998) Unionist Scotland, 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780859764711

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) Locality, tradition and language in the evolution of Scottish unionism: a case study, Paisley 1886-1910. In: Macdonald, C.M.M. (ed.) Unionist Scotland 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 52-72. ISBN 9780859764711

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) The Unionist discourse. In: Macdonald, C.M.M. (ed.) Unionist Scotland 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780859764711

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) The Vanduaria of Ptolemy: place and the past. In: Broun, D., Finlay, R.J. and Lynch, M. (eds.) Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland Through the Ages. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 177-194. ISBN 9780859764094

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) Weak roots and branches: class, gender and the geography of industrial protest. Scottish Labour History, 33,

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Number of items: 47.

Articles

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2016) The fierce urgency of now: conjecture and the limits of Scottish history. Journal of Scottish Thought, 8, pp. 8-18.

Macdonald, Catriona M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2015) 'Keep you eye on Paisley': a personal post-referendum reflection. Drouth, 50, pp. 86-95.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Challenging the stereotype: the role of Scottish women in the Great War. History Scotland, 13(4), pp. 24-29.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2013) Framing thoughts of Scottish independence during the Interregnum. Drouth, 45, pp. 10-19.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2006) The Church and the cradle?: baptism and visions of childhood in Victorian Scotland. Review of Scottish Culture, 18, pp. 51-72.

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (1998) Weak roots and branches: class, gender and the geography of industrial protest. Scottish Labour History, 33,

Books

MacDonald, Catriona M M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2024) The Caledoniad: the Making of Scottish History. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780859767200

Macdonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (2009) Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906566081

Book Sections

Edited Books

MacDonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 and McFarland, E.W. (Eds.) (1999) Scotland and the Great War. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK. ISBN 9781862320567

MacDonald, C.M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-5223 (Ed.) (1998) Unionist Scotland, 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780859764711

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Supervision

I am pleased to supervise research projects that fall broadly within my areas of research expertise, namely the socio-political history of Scotland from 1707; Scottish historiography; Scottish cultural studies since 1832.

My recent PhD students produced theses in the following areas:

The politics and governance of the Scottish islands in the late twentieth century
The Scottish Co-operative movement after 1945

I am currently supervising projects in the following areas:

Fair Trade in Scotland
Scottish military culture overseas

Teaching

I teach on History 1A (Scotland’s Millenium: Kingdom, Union and Nation, 1000-1999) and supervise undergraduate dissertation students specialising in modern Scottish history. I convene Honours courses in modern Scottish socio-political history and Scottish e/im/migration and contribute to the provision of JYA courses in Scottish studies.

At Masters level I supervise dissertations for MLitt History and MLitt Scottish History students, and teach on courses such as Issues and Ideologies in Modern Scotland. In recent years I have taken the lead in developing MOOC and online courses in Scottish Studies.

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Member and former Director of the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Member, editorial advisory board: Scottish Affairs, History Scotland.
Member, Council of the Scottish History Society.

Former editor of the Scottish Historical Review, President of the Scottish History Society, and Trustee, National Museums Scotland. Academic Lead (with Stephen Mullen), Historical Conversations.

Dr Catriona Macdonald

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