Scotland: From the Treaty of Union to the Enlightenment, 1707-1815
Learning Resource
- Collected Works of Allan Ramsay Project, including an interactive map of eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Available here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/edinburghenlightenment/.
- Rapport, M. (2021) The Franco-American Alliance 1778, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time. Available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v99n
Open Access Articles
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Bowie, K. (2018) National opinion and the press in Scotland before the union of 1707. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 13-19. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/152289/.
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Bowie, K. and Raffe, A. (2017) Politics, the people, and extra-institutional participation in Scotland, c. 1603-1712. Journal of British Studies, 56(4), pp. 797-815. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/140607/.
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Bowie, K. (2015) A 1706 manifesto for an armed rising against incorporating union. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 237-267. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/108507/.
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Bowie, K. (2015) 'A legal limited monarchy': Scottish constitutionalism in the union of crowns, 1603-1707. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 35(2), pp. 131-154. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/108510/.
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Bowie, K. (2015) Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester affair. In: Benchimol, A., Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment.Series: The enlightenment world (29). Pickering & Chatto: London, pp. 9-20. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/103037/.
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Bowie, K. (2012) 1707 and a Nation Divided on Union. Scotsman. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/84179/.
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Bowie, K. (2012) New perspectives on pre-union Scotland. In: Devine, T.M. and Wormald, J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 303-319. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/62030/.
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Bowie, K. (2008) Publicity, parties and patronage: parliamentary management and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish union. Scottish Historical Review, 87(Sup 2), pp. 78-93. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/40157/.
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Mackillop, A. (2017) Riots and reform: burgh authority, the languages of civic reform and the Aberdeen riot of 1785. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 402-423. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/149758/.
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Munck, T. (2016) The Enlightenment as modernity: Jonathan Israel's interpretation across two decades.Reviews in History(2039), (doi:10.14296/RiH/2014/2039) [Book Review]. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/147248/.
- Pollard, T. (2015) Mosses, maps and musket balls: pinpointing the location of Sheriffmuir Battlefield. Forth Naturalist and Historian, 38, pp. 131-145. Available here: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/115330/
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Pollard, T. (2009) The battle of Culloden: more than a difference of opinion. In: Pollard, T. (ed.) Culloden: The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle. Pen and Sword Military: Barnsley. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/80469/.
- Pollard, T. (2008) The Archaeology of the Siege of Fort William, 1746. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 189-229. Available here: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/44838/
The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay
Available here are the webpages of the AHRC-funded project to produce a multi-volume edition of Allan Ramsay's works, a monograph on Edinburgh in the first age of Enlightenment, and a range of other activities, relating to both Allan Ramsay the elder (1684-1758) and the younger (1713-84). On this page, you will find interactive material, plans, updates, news, and information on the team.
Be sure to take a look at the interactive map of Enlightenment Edinburgh!
Related Book
Bowie, K., Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707 (Edinburgh, 2007) - In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, oppositional leaders were able to recruit popular support to pressure the government with claimed representations of a national interest. This is particularly well demonstrated in the case of the Anglo-Scottish union crisis of 1699-1707, in which Country party leaders encouraged remarkable levels of participation by non-elite Scots. Though dominant accounts of this crisis portray Scottish opinion as impotent in the face of Court party corruption, this book demonstrates the significance of public opinion in the political process: from the Darien crisis of 1699-1701 to the incorporation debates of 1706-7, the Country party aggressively employed pamphlets, petitions and crowds to influence political outcomes. The government's changing response to these adversarial activities further indicates their rising influence. By revealing the ways in which public opinion in Scotland shaped the union crisis from beginning to end, this book explores the power and limits of public opinion in the early modern public sphere and revises understanding of the making of the British union.