Professor Karin Bowie

  • Professor of Early Modern Scottish History (History)

telephone: 01413305874
email: Karin.Bowie@glasgow.ac.uk

R302 Level 3, History, 9 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543

Research interests

  • Public opinion, petitioning and popular politics in early modern Scotland
  • Popular culture and religion in Scotland, 1560-1707
  • The making of the Union of 1707

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 30.

2024

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2024) Gathering Hands: political petitioning and participative subscription in post-Reformation Scotland. In: Waddell, Brodie and Peacey, Jason (eds.) The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain. UCL Press: London. ISBN 9781800085503 (In Press)

2023

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2023) Sedition: The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c.1550–1610, ed. John O’Brien and Marc Schachter. English Historical Review, 138(590-59), pp. 329-331. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead135)[Book Review]

2022

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2022) Popular or parliamentary sovereignty? National opinion and the Declaration of Arbroath on the eve of union. Scottish Historical Review, 101(3), pp. 475-490. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2022.0579)

2021

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2021) The Darien Scheme. History Today, 71(12),

2020

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (Eds.) (2020) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge. ISBN 9780367630003

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2020) From customary to constitutional right: The right to petition in Scotland before the 1707 Act of Union. In: Bowie, Karin and Munck, Thomas (eds.) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge, pp. 9-22. ISBN 9780367630003

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2020) Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707. Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108843478 (doi: 10.1017/9781108918787)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (2020) Introduction. In: Bowie, Karin and Munck, Thomas (eds.) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367630003

2018

Bowie, Karin(Ed.) (2018) Addresses against Incorporating Union, 1706-07. [Scholarly Editions]

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2018) National opinion and the press in Scotland before the union of 1707. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 13-19. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0218)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2018) From customary to constitutional right: the right to petition in Scotland before the 1707 Act of Union. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 38(3), pp. 279-292. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2018.1534728)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (2018) Early modern political petitioning and public engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c. 1550–1795. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 38(3), pp. 271-278. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2018.1537072)

2017

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Raffe, Alasdair (2017) Politics, the people, and extra-institutional participation in Scotland, c. 1603-1712. Journal of British Studies, 56(4), pp. 797-815. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2017.119)

2016

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2016) Public, People and Nation in Early Modern Scotland. Royal Historical Society 2016 David Berry Prize, (Unpublished)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2016) The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in Their British, Atlantic and European Contexts. By Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2013. 315 p. £65 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84383-816-6. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39(2), pp. 292-293. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12291)[Book Review]

2015

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) 'A legal limited monarchy': Scottish constitutionalism in the union of crowns, 1603-1707. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 35(2), pp. 131-154. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2015.0152)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) A 1706 manifesto for an armed rising against incorporating union. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 237-267. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2015.0258)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester affair. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: The enlightenment world (29). Pickering & Chatto: London, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9781848935501

2014

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2014) Scotland on the Brink. BBC History Magazine,

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2014) Royals, rebels and religion: Scotland and the road to Union. BBC iWonder,

2013

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2013) Cultural, British and global turns in the history of Early Modern Scotland. Scottish Historical Review, 92(234), pp. 38-48. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2013.0166)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2013) Constitution questions are not new. Scotsman,

2012

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2012) 1707 and a Nation Divided on Union. Scotsman,

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (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. ISBN 9780199563692

2011

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2011) Popular politics and the making of the Union of 1707. History Teaching Review Yearbook, 25, pp. 15-24.

2008

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Popular resistance and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of union. Scottish Archives, 14, pp. 10-26.

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Popular resistance, religion and the Union of 1707. In: Devine, T.M. (ed.) Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 39-53. ISBN 9780748635429

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Publicity, parties and patronage: parliamentary management and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish union. Scottish Historical Review, 87(Sup 2), pp. 78-93. (doi: 10.3366/E0036924108000498)

2007

Bowie, K. (2007) Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707. Series: Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series. Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press: Woodbridge, Suffolk. ISBN 9780861932894

2003

Bowie, K. (2003) Public opinion, popular politics and the Union of 1707. Scottish Historical Review, 82(2), pp. 226-260.

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Number of items: 30.

Articles

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2022) Popular or parliamentary sovereignty? National opinion and the Declaration of Arbroath on the eve of union. Scottish Historical Review, 101(3), pp. 475-490. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2022.0579)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2021) The Darien Scheme. History Today, 71(12),

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2018) National opinion and the press in Scotland before the union of 1707. Scottish Affairs, 27(1), pp. 13-19. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0218)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2018) From customary to constitutional right: the right to petition in Scotland before the 1707 Act of Union. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 38(3), pp. 279-292. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2018.1534728)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (2018) Early modern political petitioning and public engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c. 1550–1795. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 38(3), pp. 271-278. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2018.1537072)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Raffe, Alasdair (2017) Politics, the people, and extra-institutional participation in Scotland, c. 1603-1712. Journal of British Studies, 56(4), pp. 797-815. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2017.119)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2016) Public, People and Nation in Early Modern Scotland. Royal Historical Society 2016 David Berry Prize, (Unpublished)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) 'A legal limited monarchy': Scottish constitutionalism in the union of crowns, 1603-1707. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 35(2), pp. 131-154. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2015.0152)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) A 1706 manifesto for an armed rising against incorporating union. Scottish Historical Review, 94(2), pp. 237-267. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2015.0258)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2014) Scotland on the Brink. BBC History Magazine,

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2014) Royals, rebels and religion: Scotland and the road to Union. BBC iWonder,

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2013) Cultural, British and global turns in the history of Early Modern Scotland. Scottish Historical Review, 92(234), pp. 38-48. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2013.0166)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2013) Constitution questions are not new. Scotsman,

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2012) 1707 and a Nation Divided on Union. Scotsman,

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2011) Popular politics and the making of the Union of 1707. History Teaching Review Yearbook, 25, pp. 15-24.

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Popular resistance and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of union. Scottish Archives, 14, pp. 10-26.

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Publicity, parties and patronage: parliamentary management and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish union. Scottish Historical Review, 87(Sup 2), pp. 78-93. (doi: 10.3366/E0036924108000498)

Bowie, K. (2003) Public opinion, popular politics and the Union of 1707. Scottish Historical Review, 82(2), pp. 226-260.

Books

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2020) Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707. Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108843478 (doi: 10.1017/9781108918787)

Bowie, K. (2007) Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707. Series: Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series. Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press: Woodbridge, Suffolk. ISBN 9780861932894

Book Sections

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2024) Gathering Hands: political petitioning and participative subscription in post-Reformation Scotland. In: Waddell, Brodie and Peacey, Jason (eds.) The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain. UCL Press: London. ISBN 9781800085503 (In Press)

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2020) From customary to constitutional right: The right to petition in Scotland before the 1707 Act of Union. In: Bowie, Karin and Munck, Thomas (eds.) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge, pp. 9-22. ISBN 9780367630003

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (2020) Introduction. In: Bowie, Karin and Munck, Thomas (eds.) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780367630003

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2015) Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester affair. In: Benchimol, Alex, Brown, Rhona and Shuttleton, David (eds.) Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Series: The enlightenment world (29). Pickering & Chatto: London, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9781848935501

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (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. ISBN 9780199563692

Bowie, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2008) Popular resistance, religion and the Union of 1707. In: Devine, T.M. (ed.) Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 39-53. ISBN 9780748635429

Book Reviews

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2023) Sedition: The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c.1550–1610, ed. John O’Brien and Marc Schachter. English Historical Review, 138(590-59), pp. 329-331. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead135)[Book Review]

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 (2016) The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in Their British, Atlantic and European Contexts. By Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2013. 315 p. £65 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84383-816-6. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39(2), pp. 292-293. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12291)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Bowie, Karin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-5543 and Munck, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3305-5908 (Eds.) (2020) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge. ISBN 9780367630003

Scholarly Editions

Bowie, Karin(Ed.) (2018) Addresses against Incorporating Union, 1706-07. [Scholarly Editions]

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Supervision

  • Animals, gender and witchcraft in early modern Scotland
  • Time and gender in early modern Scottish recipe books
  • The Scottish colony of East New Jersey
  • Covenanter Military Capability 1638-1651 
  • British Monetary Union, 1603-1707
  • Clan Identity in Restoration Scotland: The Mackenzies, c.1670-1707
  • John Erskine, First Earl of Mar and Regent of Scotland 

Completed theses:

  • Canning, Simon
    Military analysis of the Scottish Covenanter armies
  • Kerr, Roslin
    Popular sovereignty in early modern Scotland: constitutional theory and popular consent, 1603-1746
  • Lewis, William
    “Their Dear Brethren of England” Scottish Print for an English Public, 1637 – 1652.
  • Maclean, Cameron
    The Anglo-Scottish Monetary Union (1604-1707)
  • MacLennan, Nathan
    “They have hazarded lives and fortunes to serve his majesty”: Royalist ideology and identity in Cromwellian Scotland 1652 -1660

Teaching

  • History 1A: Scotland’s Millennium, Kingdom, Nation and Union c1000-1999
  • Honours module: Scottish Popular Culture, 1500-1800
  • Honours Special Subject: The Making of the Union of 1707
  • PGT: Issues, Institutions and Ideologies of Modern Scotland
  • PGT: Popular Culture and the Reformation in Early Modern Scotland

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2016: David Berry Prize (Royal Historical Society)

Editorial boards

  • 2022: Royal Historical Society New Historical Perspectives

Professional & learned societies

  • 2008: Fellow, Royal Historical Society
  • 2006: Member, Scottish History Society

Supplementary

  • Governor, The Baillie's Institution (Senate Appointment)

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