9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8qq
Dr Catriona MacDonald
- Reader in Late Modern Scottish history (History)
telephone: 0141 330 7776
email: Catriona.MacDonald@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Dr Macdonald was appointed as Reader in Late Modern Scottish History in October 2011.
Research interests:
- Socio-political and cultural history of Scotland from 1832.
- Scottish Studies: interdisciplinary studies of late-modern Scottish society and culture (principally literature).
Current projects:
- Evolution of Scottish Historiography after 1832
- Scottish political poetry
- Heritage and history in a Scottish context
- History of student politics in Scotland 1886-1997
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.
I have successfully supervised and examined in the following areas: Scottish cultural history; history of professionalization; welfare; C20th military history; the modern Scottish novel; C20th Highland history.
I am currently supervising projects in the following areas:
- inter-war Scottish capitalism;
- R.B. Cunningham Graham;
- Highland and Irish communities in urban Scotland – a comparative study.
- With National Museums of Scoltand: 'Collecting the Nation'
Teaching
I currently 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 co-ordinate the provision of JYA courses in Scottish studies. A current interest is the development of on-line learning resources in the same area for distance learning students.
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. I also teach with colleagues in Scottish Literature on the Memorialising Scottish Culture (Hons) course and am part of the team developing and teaching the Robert Burns ONLINE MOOC and BOLD online courses.
If you have an interest in CPD courses in the area of modern Scottish history and culture, please get in touch. I have expertise in this area, and am happy to talk through a range of options that are available.
Additional Information
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Member of the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies.
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
- Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Scottish History Book of the Year Judge (Saltire Society).
- Member, editorial advisory board: Scottish Affairs, History Scotland, Statistical Accounts Online.
- Trustee, National Museums of Scotland.
- Head of Scottish History, School of Humanities.
- Convener of Teaching and Learning, History.
Publications
2017
MacDonald, C. (2017) Genre and gender: Dorothy Dunnett and the making of Scottish popular history in a global context. In: Dye, S., Ewen, E. and Glaze, A. (eds.) Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad. Series: Guelph Series in Scottish Studies (4). University of Guelph. (In Press)
MacDonald, C. (2017) Rogue element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British history. In: Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (eds.) Literature and Union. Oxford University Press. (In Press)
2016
MacDonald, C. (2016) "Matters of heart-searching to the pioneers”: Andrew Dewar Gibb and Scottish nationalism, 1930-1961. In: Mitchell, J. and Hassan, G. (eds.) Scottish National Party Leaders. Biteback, pp. 105-125. ISBN 9781785900921
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond: popular histories of Scotland’s martial past. In: Myth, Memory and the First World War in Scotland: The Legacy of Bannockburn. Bucknell Press. (In Press)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) Scotland and the first world war: identity, nationhood and legacy. Historische Mitteilungen, (In Press)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) The fierce urgency of now: conjecture and the limits of Scottish history. Journal of Scottish Thought, (In Press)
2015
Macdonald, C. M.M. (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, C. M.M. (2015) Andrew Lang and Scottish historiography: taking on tradition. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 207-236. (doi:10.3366/shr.2015.0257)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2015) 'Keep you eye on Paisley': a personal post-referendum reflection. Drouth, 50, pp. 86-95.
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2015) The 'Scotch accent of mind': historicising the referendum. In: Müller, K. P. (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, C. M.M. and Ditchburn, D. (2014) Bannockburn, world war 1 and the referendum. Scottish Historical Review, 93(237), pp. 161-170. (doi:10.3366/shr.2014.0213)
MacDonald, C. M. M. (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. (2013) Challenging the stereotype: the role of Scottish women in the Great War. History Scotland, 13(4), pp. 24-29.
Carruthers, G. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Fictive pasts and past fictions. Scottish Historical Review, 92(1), pp. 137-166. (doi:10.3366/shr.2013.0171)
Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Framing thoughts of Scottish independence during the Interregnum. Drouth, 45, pp. 10-19.
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (2013) Touching memories: Scotland since 1914. In: Cowan, E. (ed.) Why Scottish History Matters. Saltire Society: Edinburgh, UK. (In Press)
Macdonald, C.M.M. 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. (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. (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. (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. (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
2009
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (2009) Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906566081
2008
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. (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. and McFarland, E.W. (Eds.) (1999) Scotland and the Great War. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK. ISBN 9781862320567
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (Ed.) (1998) Unionist Scotland, 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780859764711
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (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. (1998) Weak roots and branches: class, gender and the geography of industrial protest. Scottish Labour History, 33,
Articles
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) Scotland and the first world war: identity, nationhood and legacy. Historische Mitteilungen, (In Press)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) The fierce urgency of now: conjecture and the limits of Scottish history. Journal of Scottish Thought, (In Press)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2015) Andrew Lang and Scottish historiography: taking on tradition. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 207-236. (doi:10.3366/shr.2015.0257)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2015) 'Keep you eye on Paisley': a personal post-referendum reflection. Drouth, 50, pp. 86-95.
Macdonald, C. M.M. and Ditchburn, D. (2014) Bannockburn, world war 1 and the referendum. Scottish Historical Review, 93(237), pp. 161-170. (doi:10.3366/shr.2014.0213)
MacDonald, C. M. M. (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)
Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Challenging the stereotype: the role of Scottish women in the Great War. History Scotland, 13(4), pp. 24-29.
Carruthers, G. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Fictive pasts and past fictions. Scottish Historical Review, 92(1), pp. 137-166. (doi:10.3366/shr.2013.0171)
Macdonald, C.M.M. (2013) Framing thoughts of Scottish independence during the Interregnum. Drouth, 45, pp. 10-19.
Macdonald, C.M.M. 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.
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (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. (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)
Macdonald, C.M.M. (1998) Weak roots and branches: class, gender and the geography of industrial protest. Scottish Labour History, 33,
Books
Macdonald, C.M.M. (2009) Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906566081
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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
Book Sections
MacDonald, C. (2017) Genre and gender: Dorothy Dunnett and the making of Scottish popular history in a global context. In: Dye, S., Ewen, E. and Glaze, A. (eds.) Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad. Series: Guelph Series in Scottish Studies (4). University of Guelph. (In Press)
MacDonald, C. (2017) Rogue element: Charles Rogers and the Scotching of British history. In: Carruthers, G. and Kidd, C. (eds.) Literature and Union. Oxford University Press. (In Press)
MacDonald, C. (2016) "Matters of heart-searching to the pioneers”: Andrew Dewar Gibb and Scottish nationalism, 1930-1961. In: Mitchell, J. and Hassan, G. (eds.) Scottish National Party Leaders. Biteback, pp. 105-125. ISBN 9781785900921
Macdonald, C. M.M. (2016) Buchan, Bannockburn and beyond: popular histories of Scotland’s martial past. In: Myth, Memory and the First World War in Scotland: The Legacy of Bannockburn. Bucknell Press. (In Press)
Macdonald, C. M.M. (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, C. M.M. (2015) The 'Scotch accent of mind': historicising the referendum. In: Müller, K. P. (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
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (2013) Touching memories: Scotland since 1914. In: Cowan, E. (ed.) Why Scottish History Matters. Saltire Society: Edinburgh, UK. (In Press)
Arnott, M. and Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (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. (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
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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
Macdonald, C.M.M. (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. (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. (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
Edited Books
MacDonald, C.M.M. and McFarland, E.W. (Eds.) (1999) Scotland and the Great War. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK. ISBN 9781862320567
MacDonald, C.M.M. (Ed.) (1998) Unionist Scotland, 1800-1997. John Donald: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780859764711
9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8qq
