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

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2008 | 2007 | 2003
Number of items: 30.

2024

Bowie, K. (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, K. (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, K. (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, K. (2021) The Darien Scheme. History Today, 71(12),

2020

Bowie, K. and Munck, T. (Eds.) (2020) Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795. Routledge. ISBN 9780367630003

Bowie, K. (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, K. (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. and Munck, T. (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, K. (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, K. (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, K. and Munck, T. (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, 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. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2017.119)

2016

Bowie, K. (2016) Public, People and Nation in Early Modern Scotland. Royal Historical Society 2016 David Berry Prize, (Unpublished)

Bowie, K. (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, 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. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2015.0152)

Bowie, K. (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, K. (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, K. (2014) Scotland on the Brink. BBC History Magazine,

Bowie, K. (2014) Royals, rebels and religion: Scotland and the road to Union. BBC iWonder,

2013

Bowie, K. (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, K. (2013) Constitution questions are not new. Scotsman,

2012

Bowie, K. (2012) 1707 and a Nation Divided on Union. Scotsman,

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. ISBN 9780199563692

2011

Bowie, K. (2011) Popular politics and the making of the Union of 1707. History Teaching Review Yearbook, 25, pp. 15-24.

2008

Bowie, K. (2008) Popular resistance and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of union. Scottish Archives, 14, pp. 10-26.

Bowie, K. (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. (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.

This list was generated on Wed May 21 05:37:17 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Edited Books | Scholarly Editions
Number of items: 30.

Articles

Bowie, K. (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, K. (2021) The Darien Scheme. History Today, 71(12),

Bowie, K. (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, K. (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, K. and Munck, T. (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, 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. (doi: 10.1017/jbr.2017.119)

Bowie, K. (2016) Public, People and Nation in Early Modern Scotland. Royal Historical Society 2016 David Berry Prize, (Unpublished)

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. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2015.0152)

Bowie, K. (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, K. (2014) Scotland on the Brink. BBC History Magazine,

Bowie, K. (2014) Royals, rebels and religion: Scotland and the road to Union. BBC iWonder,

Bowie, K. (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, K. (2013) Constitution questions are not new. Scotsman,

Bowie, K. (2012) 1707 and a Nation Divided on Union. Scotsman,

Bowie, K. (2011) Popular politics and the making of the Union of 1707. History Teaching Review Yearbook, 25, pp. 15-24.

Bowie, K. (2008) Popular resistance and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of union. Scottish Archives, 14, pp. 10-26.

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. (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, K. (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, K. (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, K. (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, K. and Munck, T. (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, K. (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. (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. (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, K. (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, K. (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, K. and Munck, T. (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
  • 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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