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CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert Allan HOUSTON
Department of Modern History University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9AL Scotland 2
UNIVERSITY CAREER
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, 1973-77:
First class honours degree in Modern History (MA)
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1977-83:
1977-81, research student, History Faculty, holding SSRC research grant at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and a Peterhouse College research scholarship. During 1980-81 I was holder of the Ellen MacArthur studentship in social and economic history. Doctorate of Philosophy awarded August, 1981 for thesis entitled ‘Aspects of society in Scotland and north-east England, 1550-1750: social structure, literacy and geographical mobility’. Examined by R. S. Schofield and M. Anderson. 1981-83, research fellow, Clare College, Cambridge.
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY:
September 1983-September 1993: Lecturer in Modern History. October 1993: Reader in Modern History. October 1995: Professor of Early Modern History.
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS HELD: April - June 1994: Visiting Professor, Faculteit der Historische en Kunstwetenschappen, Erasmus University Rotterdam. May 1996 - May 1997: Leverhulme Research Fellowship September - November 1996: ‘Distinguished Visiting Scholar’, Department of History, University of Adelaide September 2006 – September 2009: Leverhulme Major Research Fellow October - November 2009: visiting fellow, Yale University August-September 2010: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library
HONOURS Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1988-date Member of Academia Europaea (Humanities 1 – now ‘History and Archaeology’) 2001- date; section committee member 2010-2013 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2012- 3
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS (15 titles plus editions, translations)
Records of a Scottish village: Lasswade, 1650-1750. Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge, 1982. Microfiche approx. 300pp + 32pp.
Scottish literacy and the Scottish identity: Literacy and society in Scotland and England, 1600-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 325pp. 0-521-26598-3
Scottish society, 1500-1800. Social structures and social change in a European perspective. [edited with I. D. Whyte]. Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 298pp.
Literacy in early modern Europe: culture and education, 1500-1800. Longman, 1989. ix + 266pp. 0-582-55266-4
Italian translation, Cultura e istruzione nell’Europa moderna. Il Mulino [Bologna], 1997. 339pp.
2nd edition, Pearson, 2001. x + 295pp. ISBN 0-582-36810-3 pb.
The population history of Britain and Ireland, 1500-1750. MacMillan, 1991. 100pp.
Ibid., 2nd edition, Cambridge U. P. 1995. 90pp. Reprinted in M. Anderson (ed.), British population history. From the Black Death to the present day. Cambridge U. P., 1996.
Conflict and identity in the history of Scotland and Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. [edited with S. J. Connolly & R. J. Morris] Carnegie Publishing, 1995. x + 275pp.
Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760. Oxford University Press, 1994. x + 443pp. Runner-up for the Credit Communal Prize in European Urban History, 1995.
Madness and society in eighteenth-century Scotland. Oxford, 2000. xiv + 450pp. Oxford [Clarendon Press] Studies in Social History: general editor, Professor Sir Keith Thomas. ISBN 0-19-820787-5.
Autism in history. The case of Hugh Blair of Borgue. With Professor Uta Frith, MRC Cognitive Psychology, University of London. ix + 207 pp. Blackwell, 2000. ISBN 0-63-1220887 hb, 0-63-1220895 pb.
The New Penguin History of Scotland. Co-edited (and with an introductory chapter of 58pp) with Dr W. W. J. Knox, University of St Andrews: 624pp. Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0-71-399187-9. Now available from the Folio Society. 4
Scotland: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008. 172pp. ISBN 978-01992-30792.
Punishing the dead? Suicide, lordship and community in Britain, 1500-1830. Oxford University Press, 2010. 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-958642-4. Round table review in Britain and the world 4, 2 (2011), 303-20.
Bride ales and penny weddings: recreations, reciprocity, and regions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Oxford University Press, 2014. 239 pp. ISBN 978-0- 19-968087-0.
The coroners of northern Britain, c.1300-1700. Palgrave, 2014. 123pp. ISBN 978-1-13- 738106-4.
Peasant petitions: social relations and economic life on landed estates, 1600-1850. Palgrave, 2014. 320pp. ISBN 978-1-13-739408-8. 5
ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS (86 items)
[all published in refereed journals or books]
‘Colliers with colic?’, Local Population Studies 22 (1979) 57-9.
‘Parish listings and social structure: Penningham and Whithorn, Wigtownshire, in perspective’, Local Population Studies 23 (1979) 24-32.
‘Vagrants and society in early modern England’, Cambridge Anthropology (1980) 18-32.
‘The literacy myth? Illiteracy in Scotland, 1630-1760’, Past and Present 96 (1982) 81-102. Reproduced in H. Graff (ed.), Literacy and historical development (University of Chicago Press, 2008), 183-206.
‘The development of literacy: northern England, 1640-1750’, Economic History Review 35,2 (1982) 199-216.
‘Illiteracy in the diocese of Durham, 1663-89 and 1750-62: the evidence of marriage bonds’, Northern History 18 (1982) 239-51.
‘The poll tax records of Lasswade, Midlothian (1694)’, Scottish Genealogist (1982).
‘Illiteracy among Newcastle shoemakers, 1618-1740’, Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series, 10 (1982) 143-7.
‘A new approach to family history? Some comments on Miranda Chaytor’s ‘Family and kinship in Ryton’’, History Workshop 14 (1982) 120-31 [with R. M. Smith, university of Oxford].
‘Coal, class and culture: labour relations in a Scottish mining community, 1650-1750’, Social History 8,1 (1983) 1-18.
‘Marriage formation and domestic industry: occupational endogamy in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, 1697-1764’, Journal of Family History 8,3 (Fall 1983) 215-29.
‘Literacy and society in the west, 1500-1850’, Social History 8,3 (1983) 269-93. Translated in A. B. Langeli and X. Toscani (eds), Istruzione, alfabetismo, scrittura (Milan, 1991) 13-60.
‘Proto-industrialization? Cottage industry, social change and industrial revolution’, Historical Journal 27,2 (1984) 473-92. [with K. Snell, University of Leicester]
‘Frequent flitting: geographical mobility in mid-nineteenth century Greenlaw, Berwickshire’, Scottish Studies (1985) 31-47. 6
‘Births and baptisms: Haddington in the mid-seventeenth century’, Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society (1985).
‘Geographical mobility in Scotland, 1652-1811’, Journal of Historical Geography 11 (1985) 379-94.
‘British society in the eighteenth century’, Journal of British Studies 25,4 (1986) 436-66.
‘The literacy campaign in Scotland, 1560-1803’, in H.J. Graff & R.F. Arnove (eds.), National literacy campaigns. Historical and comparative perspectives (Plenum Press, NY, 1987) 49-64.
‘The Demographic Regime, 1760-1830’, in T.M. Devine & R. Mitchison (eds.), People and society in Scotland, volume 1, 1760-1830 (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1988) 9-26.
‘Introduction. Scottish society in perspective, 1500-1800’, in R.A. Houston & I.D. Whyte (eds.), Scottish Society, 1500-1800 (CUP, 1988) 1-36.
‘Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500-1800’, in ibid. 118-47
‘Scottish education and literacy, 1600-1800: a European perspective’, in T.M. Devine (ed.), Improvement and Enlightenment (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1989) 43-61.
‘Review of periodical literature, 1500-1700 published in 1987’, Economic History Review 42,1 (1989) 102-11.
‘Age at marriage of Scottish women, c.1660-1770’, Local Population Studies 43 (1990) 63-6.
‘Review of periodical literature, 1500-1700 published in 1988’, Economic History Review 43,1 (1990) 110-20.
‘Migration and the turnover of population in Scotland, 1600-1900’, Annales de Demographie Historique (1990) 285-308 [with C. W. J. Withers].
‘Review of periodical literature, 1500-1700 published in 1989’ Economic History Review 44,1 (1991) 153-63.
‘The geography of literacy in north-east Scotland in the eighteenth century’, Journal of Historical Geography 14 (1991) 135-45 [with R. E. Tyson].
‘Mortality in early modern Scotland: the life expectancy of advocates’, Continuity and Change 7,1 (1992) 47-69.
‘L’istruzione fra gli adulti in Europa nell’età moderna’, Quaderni Storici ns 78 (1991) 941- 61. 7
‘The military in Edinburgh society, 1660-1760’, War & Society 11,2 (1993) 41-56.
‘Review of periodical literature, 1500-1700 published in 1991’, Economic History Review 46,1 (1993) 170-6.
‘Literacy, education and the culture of print in Enlightenment Edinburgh’, History 78:254 (1993) 373-92.
‘Fraud in the Scottish linen industry: Edinburgh charity workhouse, 1745-1758’, Archives 21, 91 (1994) 43-56.
‘‘Bustling artisans’. Patronage disputes in South Leith during the 1740s and 1750s’, Albion 26, 1 (1994) 55-77.
‘Popular politics in the reign of George II: the Edinburgh cordiners’, Scottish Historical Review LXII, 2: no. 194 (1994) 172-95.
‘Eighteenth-century Scottish studies: out of the laager?’, Scottish Historical Review 73 (April 1994) 64-81.
‘Literacy, ancient and modern’, Paedagogica Historica 25,1 (1985) [sic 1994] 384-7.
‘Writers to the Signet: estimates of adult mortality in Scotland from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century’, Social History of Medicine 8, 1 (1995), 37-53.
‘Literacy’, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation vol. 2 (1995), 429-34.
‘The economy of Edinburgh, 1694-1763: the evidence of the Common Good’, in Connolly, S. J., Houston, R. A., & Morris, R. J. (eds), Conflict and identity in the history of Scotland and Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (Preston, 1995) 45- 62.
‘Introduction’, in Connolly, S.J., Houston, R.A., & Morris, R.J. (eds), Conflict and identity in the history of Scotland and Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (Preston, 1995), 1-15 [with S. J. Connolly & R. J. Morris]
‘In Europa tutti vanno a scuola’, in P. Bairoch and E. J. Hobsbawm (eds), Storia d’Europa V. L’Età moderna: secoli XIX-XX (EINAUDI, Torino, 1996), 1167-1204.
‘Fire and filth: Edinburgh’s environment, 1660-1760’, Book of the Old Edinburgh Club n.s. 3 (1994), 25-36.
‘Elders and deacons: membership of the consistory of the Scots church, Rotterdam (1643-1829) and Tolbooth parish, Edinburgh (1690-1760)’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 20, 3 (1994), 282-308. 8
‘The consistory of the Scots church, Rotterdam: an aspect of ‘civic Calvinism’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996), 362-92. [Awarded the Harold Grimm prize by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1997]
‘‘To die in the term’: the mortality of English barristers, 1560-1640’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 26, 2 (1995), 233-49 [with W. R. Prest, University of Adelaide].
‘Private vices, public acrimony. The divorce of William Gordon and the renewal of the Scots staple at Veere in the 1690s’, Northern Scotland 16 (1996), 55-72.
‘The Scots church, Rotterdam, 1643-1795: a Dutch or a Scottish example of civic Calvinism?’, in J. Roding and L. H. van Voss eds, The North Sea and culture, 1550-1800 (Leiden, 1996), 266-84.
‘Literacy and its cultural significance in early modern Europe’, Studia Culturologica 4 (1996), 63-82.
‘Les îles Britanniques’, in Bardet, J-P. and Dupâquier, J. (eds), Histoire des Populations de l’Europe vol.1, (Paris, 1997), 369-87. [with C. Ó Gráda, R. S. Schofield and E. A. Wrigley; the three volumes were awarded the Adolphe Bentinck Prize, 2000]
‘Hands across the water. The making and breaking of marriage between Dutch and Scots in the mid-eighteenth century’, Law and History Review 15, 2 (Fall 1997), 215-42 [with M. P. C. van der Heijden, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam]. Translated as ‘Banden over zee …’, Jaarboek der sociale en economische geschiedenis van leiden en omstreken (1998), 59-91.
‘Colonies, enterprises, and wealth: the economies of Europe and the wider world’, in E. Cameron (ed.), Early modern Europe: an Oxford history (Oxford, 1999), 137-70.
‘Therapies for mental ailments in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 28 (October, 1998), 555-568.
‘‘Not simple boarding’: care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century’, in P. Bartlett and D. Wright (eds), Outside the walls of the asylum: the history of care in the community, 1750-2000 (London: Athlone Press, 1999), 19-44.
‘Literacy in Europe’, in D. Wagner, R. L. Venezky, and B. B. Street (eds), Literacy: an international handbook (Westview Press, N.Y., 1999), 385-91.
‘Madness, morality, and creativity. The case of Robert Fergusson and the social context of insanity in eighteenth century Scotland’, British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, 1 (1999), 133-54. 9
‘Lecture-écriture et pouvoir en Ecosse au début de l’époque moderne’, in C. Barré-de- Miniac (ed.), Copie et modèle: usages, transmission, appropriation de l’écrit (Paris 2000), 101-24.
‘Culture and leisure, 1700-1840’, in P. Clark (ed.), The Cambridge urban history of Britain vol. 2 (Cambridge, 2000), 575-613 [with Professor Peter Clark, U. Leicester]
‘Literacy’, Encyclopedia of European Social History (Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, NY, 2001), 391-406.
‘Institutional care for the insane and idiots in Scotland before 1820’, parts 1 and 2, History of Psychiatry 12, 1 and 2 (2001), 3-31, 177-97.
‘Introduction: Scots and their histories’, (with W. W. J. Knox) in R. A. Houston and W. W. J. Knox (eds), The New Penguin History of Scotland (Penguin, 2001), xiii-lviii.
‘Professions and the identification of mental incapacity in eighteenth century Scotland’, Journal of Historical Sociology 14, 4 (2001), 441-66.
‘A stalker in Georgian Edinburgh’, History Scotland 1 (Winter 2001), 51-6.
‘New light on Anson’s voyages, 1740-44: a mad sailor on land and sea’, Mariner’s Mirror 88, 3 (August 2002), 260-70.
‘Madness and gender in the long eighteenth century’, Social History 27, 3 (October 2002), 309-26.
‘Literacy’, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment vol. 2 (OUP-USA, 2003), 414-18.
‘Courts, doctors and insanity defences in 18th and early 19th century Scotland’, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 26, 4 (2003), 339-54.
‘The face of madness in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Eighteenth-Century Life 27, 2 (May 2003), 49-66.
‘Legal protection of the mentally incapable in early modern Scotland’, Journal of Legal History 24, 2 (August 2003), 165-86.
‘‘Lesser-used’ languages in historic Europe: models of change from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century’, European Review 11, 3 (2003), 299-324.
‘Care of the mentally disabled in and around Edinburgh, c.1680-c.1820’, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh vol. 33, supplement 12 (2003), 12-20.
‘Rights and wrongs in the confinement of the mentally incapable in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Continuity and Change 18, 3 (2003), 373-94. 10
‘Class, gender and madness in eighteenth-century Scotland’, in J. Andrews and A. Digby (eds), Sex and seclusion. Class and custody. Perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry (Rodopi, 2004), 45-68.
‘Clergy and the care of the insane in eighteenth century Britain’, Church History 73, 1 (2004), 114-38.
‘Minority languages and cultural change in early modern Europe’, in N. Ó Ciosáin (ed.), Understanding cultural change in the past (Galway, 2005), 13-36.
‘Poor relief and the dangerous and criminal insane in Scotland, c.1740-1840’, Journal of Social History 40, 2 (Winter 2006), 453-76.
‘Property values in Scotland, c.1650-1850’, Journal of European Economic History 35, 1 (2006), 55-84.
‘The medicalization of suicide: medicine and the law in Scotland and England, c.1750- 1850’, in J. Weaver and D. Wright (eds), A History of Suicide in the Modern Western World: International Perspectives (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 91-118.
‘What did the royal almoner do in Britain and Ireland, c.1450-1700?’, English Historical Review cxxv. 513 (April 2010), 1-35.
‘Custom in context: medieval and early modern Scotland and England’, Past and Present 211 (May 2011), 35-76.
‘Literacy in Europe’, in Europäische Geschichte Online / European History Online (Institute of European History, University of Mainz. 2011). http://www.ieg-ego.de
‘Explanations for death by suicide in northern Britain during the long eighteenth century’, History of Psychiatry special number 23, 1 (2012), 52-64.
‘Representations of Fact and Truth in the Making of News: Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in the North of England, c. 1750-1830’, Studies in the Literary Imagination 44, 2 (Fall 2011) [2013], 93-108.
‘A latent historiography? The case of psychiatry in Britain (1500-1820)’, The Historical Journal 57, 1 (2014), 289-310.
‘Towns and urbanisation’, in H. M. Scott (ed.), The Oxford handbook of early modern European history, 1350-1750. Volume I: Peoples and Place (Oxford, 2015), 479-508.
‘Church briefs in England and Wales from Elizabethan times to 1828’, Huntington Library Quarterly 78, 3 (Fall 2015), 493-520. 11
‘People, space, and law in late medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland’, Past and Present 230 (2016), 47-89.
FORTHCOMING ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
‘Law and literature in Scotland, c.1450-1707’, in C. Bradin and L. Hutson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500–1700 (Oxford, 2017). 10,000 words (final version approved June 2015; awaiting proofs).
SHORT ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND JOURNALISM
‘The Scots kirk, Rotterdam: 350th Anniversary’, Scotsman (31 July 1993) 10.
‘Population’, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation vol. 3 (1995), 316-17.
‘Population’ and ‘Literacy’, in A. F. Kinney and D. W. Swain (eds), Tudor England: an encyclopedia (New York, 2001), 561-2 and 432-4.
‘Time out of mind’, The Herald Saturday magazine (9 December 2000), 17-19.
‘I’ve been watching you’, Spectrum (26 June 2001), 14-17.
‘Burns Suppers’, BBC History Magazine 3, 2 (February 2002), 48-9.
Sir John Clerk of Penicuik [first baronet] and Sir George Bruce of Carnock, New Dictionary of National Biography.
‘What if the Scots had voted for devolution in 1979?’, in D. Brack (ed.), President Gore and other things that never happened (London: Politico’s, 2006), 205-20.
‘Punishing the dead’, Local History News 80 (2006), 10.
‘Scotland’, Encyclopedia of European History, 1789-1914 (Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, NY, 2006).
‘Literacy’, ‘capitalism’, ‘Edinburgh’, ‘Scotland’: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Europe (Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, NY, 2004).
‘1638: the Scottish revolution’, BBC History Magazine (April 2007), 64-7.
‘Butcher Cumberland: a reply’, BBC History Magazine (July 2008), 54.
‘Apologising for history: what is it good for?’, BBC History Magazine (March 2009), 60-1.
‘Punishing the dead’, BBC History Magazine (August 2010), 57-9. 12
BOOK REVIEWS (116 items)
Agriculture and society in seventeenth century Scotland, I.D. Whyte in Social History 6,1 (1981) 121-3.
The population history of England, 1541-1871, E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield in British Book News (March 1982) 148.
Scottish rural society in the sixteenth century, M.H.B. Sanderson in British Book News (June 1982) 389-90.
Family forms in historic Europe, ed. R. Wall in British Book News (August 1983) 479.
The management of Scottish society, 1707-64, J.S. Shaw in British Book News (September 1983) 587-8.
The Stanleys: Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby, 1385-1672: The origins, wealth and power of a landowning family, B. Coward in British Book News (October 1983) 651.
Prisons and punishment in Scotland: from the middle ages to the present, J. Cameron in British Book News (December 1983) 750.
Industry and ethos. Scotland, 1832-1914, S and O Checkland in Economic History Review 37,4 (1984) 620-1.
Religion and society in early modern Europe, 1500-1800, ed. K von Greyerz in British Book News (May 1985) 309.
The agrarian history of England and Wales, vol. 5: 1640-1750, ed. J. Thirsk in British Book News (September 1985) 534.
A new history of Ireland, vol. 4: eighteenth century Ireland eds T.W. Moody and W.E. Vaughan in British Book News (September 1986) 556.
European society, 1500-1700, H. Kamen in Economic History Review 38,3 (1985) 472.
From lairds to louns, ed. D. Stevenson in Scottish Economic and Social History 7 (1987) 82.
Witchcraft and religion: the politics of popular belief, C. Larner in English Historical Review CI,398 (1986) 232.
The written word. Literacy in transition, ed. G. Baumann in English Historical Review CIV,411 (1989) 557.
Sexuality and social control. Scotland, 1660-1780, R. Mitchison and L. Leneman in English Historical Review (1990). 13
A general view of the rural economy of England, 1538-1840, A. Kussmaul in Times Literary Supplement 4575 (7-13/12/1990) 1328.
Popular culture in seventeenth-century England, ed. B. Reay in History of European Ideas (1987) 241-2.
Small books and pleasant histories. Popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth century England, M. Spufford in Social History 8,3 (1983) 385-7.
Reading and writing in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry, F. Furet and J. Ozouf in History of European Ideas (1985) 107-8.
Markets and manufactures in early industrial Europe, ed. M. Berg in Business History Review 65, 2 (summer 1991) 450-2.
Consumer behaviour and material culture in Britain, 1660-1760, L. Weatherill in Scottish Economic and Social History 10 (1989) 96-7.
Bound for America. The transportation of British convicts to the colonies, 1718-1775, A.R. Ekirch in Journal of European Economic History (1992).
Perspectives in Scottish social history. Essays in honour of Rosalind Mitchison, ed. L. Leneman in Scottish Historical Review 69,1 (1990) 209-11.
Literacy and popular culture. England, 1750-1914, D. Vincent in History & Computing 2,1 (1990) 54-5.
The common people of Britain: a history from the Norman Conquest to the present, J. F. C. Harrison in History of European Ideas (1987) 241-2.
The legacies of literacy. Continuities and contradictions in western culture and society, H. J. Graff in Social History 13,2 (1988) 231-3.
Reproducing families. The political economy of English population history, D. Levine in Population Studies 44 (1990) 332.
Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society, eds J. Walter and R. Schofield in Continuity and Change 6,1 (1991) 110-13.
Worlds within worlds: structures of life in sixteenth-century London, S. Rappaport in Continuity and Change 6,2 (1991) 275-8.
Der frümoderne Staat und die europäische Universität, R. Stichweh in History of European Universities (1992) 291-2. 14
Sleepless souls. Suicide in early modern England, M. MacDonald and T.R. Murphy in Albion 24,1 (1992) 110-12.
Professors, patronage and politics. The Aberdeen universities in the eighteenth century, R.L. Emmerson in History of European Universities (1993) 425-6.
The making of an industrial society. Whickham, 1560-1765, D. Levine and K. Wrightson in Journal of European Economic History 21,2 (1992) 417-18.
Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600, P.F. Grendler in Journal of Educational Administration and History (1993).
Scottish universities: distinctiveness and diversity, eds J.J. Carter and D.J. Withrington in History of Universities (1993) 439-40.
Societies, culture and kinship, 1580-1850, ed. C. Phythian-Adams in Albion (1994).
Family and social change. The household as a process in an industrializing community, A. Janssens in English Historical Review 110, 443 (1996), 1008.
Late seventeenth-century Edinburgh: a demographic study, H. M. Dingwall in English Historical Review 111, 444 (1996), 1289-90.
Illegitimacy, sex, and society. Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900, A. Blaikie in Continuity and Change 10,2 (1995), 309-10.
The north-south divide. The origins of northern consciousness in England, H. Jewell in Continuity and Change 10, 3 (1995), 439-40.
Clanship to Crofters’ War. The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands, T. M. Devine in Social History 20, 2 (May 1995) 247-9.
The transformation of rural Scotland. Social change and the agrarian economy, 1660- 1815, T. M. Devine in Continuity and Change 10, 2 (1995), 314-16.
Glasgow. Volume 1: beginnings to 1830 eds T. M. Devine and G. Jackson in Economic History Review 48, 4 (1995) 820.
Adapting to capitalism: working women in the English economy, 1700-1850, P. Sharpe in Economic History Review 49, 4 (1996) 832-3.
Courtship, illegitimacy and marriage in early modern England, by R. Adair in Economic History Review 49, 4 (1996) 831-2.
New-born child murder. Women, illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England, by M. Jackson in Economic History Review (1997). 15
Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh, by E. C. Sanderson in Urban History 24, 3 (1997), 371-2.
English population history from family reconstitution, 1580-1837, by E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Davies, J. E. Oeppen, and R. S. Schofield in Historical Journal 41, 3 (1998), 909-11.
Image and identity. The making and re-making of Scotland through the ages, edited by Dauvit Broun, Richard R. Finlay and Michael Lynch in Continuity and Change (1999).
Scottish education since the Reformation, by R. D. Anderson in Scottish Historical Review (1999).
Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900, by Charles W. J. Withers in Albion 31, 4 (1999), 708-9.
A history of the university in Europe. Volume II: universities in early modern Europe (1500-1800), ed. Hilde de Ridder-Symoens in Annali di Storia dell’educazione e delle Istruzioni Scholastiche 6 (1999), 360-4.
State and society in early modern Scotland, by Julian Goodare in Continuity and Change (2000).
Patterns of madness in the eighteenth century: a reader, edited by Allan Ingram in Social History of Medicine (2000), 144.
The Enlightenment: a comparative social history, 1721-1794, by Thomas Munck in Continuity and Change 16, 2 (2001), 307-8.
Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: the Life and Times of George Cheyne, by Anita Guerrini in Scottish Historical Review 80, 1 (2001), 135.
The experience of reading: Irish historical perspectives, edited by Bernadette Cunningham and Máire Kennedy in Paedagogica Historica 26, 2 (2000), 768-70.
The Scottish book trade, 1500-1720: print commerce and print control in early modern Scotland, by Alastair Mann in TLS 5139 (28 September 2001), 32.
Urban achievements in early modern Europe: golden ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London, edited by Patrick O’Brien in American Historical Review (April 2002), 603-4.
Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-century England, by Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull in Medical History 47, 1 (2002), 117-18.
Adventurers and exiles: the great Scottish exodus, by Marjorie Harper in BBC History Magazine 4, 5 (2003), 57. 16
The spoken word: Oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850, edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf in Scottish Historical Review (2004).
Aberdeen before 1800: a new history, edited by E. Patricia Dennison, David Ditchburn and Michael Lynch in Urban History 30, 3 (2003), 408-9.
Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth- century London. With the complete text of John Monro’s case book, by Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull in Albion 36, 1 (2004), 143-4.
Medical conflicts in early modern London: patronage, physicians, and irregular practitioners, 1550-1640, by Margaret Pelling in Albion (2004).
Scotland’s Empire, 1600-1815, by T. M. Devine in BBC History Magazine (March 2004).
The Enlightenment and religion: the myths of modernity, by S. J. Barnett in Scottish Historical Review (2004).
The Scottish exile community in the Netherlands, 1660-1690, by Ginny Gardner in English Historical Review (2005).
From sin to insanity: suicide in early modern Europe, edited by Jeffrey R. Watt in European History Quarterly 38, 3 (2008), 515-17.
On the parish? The micro-politics of poor relief in rural England, c.1550-1750, by Steve Hindle in Scottish Historical Review (2005).
Cultural constructions of madness in eighteenth-century writing: representing the insane, by Allan Ingram with Michelle Faubert in Archives (2005).
Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland, by Raymond Gillespie in Scottish Historical Review (2006).
Network north: Scottish kin, commercial and covert associations in northern Europe, 1603-1746, by Steve Murdoch in Economic History Review (2006).
The practice of reform in health, medicine, and science, 1500-2000, edited by Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote in Scottish Historical Review (2006).
Anglo-Scottish relations, from 1603 to 1900, edited by T. C. Smout in Contemporary British History (2006).
The politics of madness in England: the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914, by J. Melling and W. Forsythe in Economic History Review (2006).
Madness, religion and the state in early modern Europe: a Bavarian beacon, by David Lederer in History 92 (2007), 121-2. 17
Madness at home: the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860, by Akihito Suzuki in Metascience (2007).
Melancholy and the care of the soul: religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England, by Jeremy Schmidt in Annals of Science (2007).
Suicide and the body politic in imperial Russia, by S. K. Morrissey in History of Psychiatry 19, 4 (2008), 506-9.
Lunatic hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830, by L. Smith in Medical History 52, 2 (2008), 279-80.
Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world, by James Buchan in BBC History Magazine (2007).
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070, by Alex Woolf in BBC History Magazine (2008).
Folk in print: Scotland’s chapbook heritage, 1750-1850, by Edward J. Cowan and Mike Paterson in Scottish Historical Review (2008).
Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham in British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, 3 (2009), 440-1.
Certain other countries. Homicide, gender and national identity in late nineteenth- century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, by Carolyn A. Conley in Journal of Social History (2008).
The Vatersay raiders, by Ben Buxton in BBC History Magazine (2008).
The pure land, by Alan Spence and At the edge of empire: the life of Thomas Blake Glover, by Michael Gardiner in Scottish Affairs 67 (2009), 121-4.
Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History, by Alistair Moffat in BBC History Magazine (2009).
‘ The Cruel Madness of Love’. Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930, by Gayle Davis in Medical History 54, 1 (January 2010), 138-9.
Law, politics and society in early modern England, by Christopher W. Brooks in Continuity and Change 24, 2 (2010), 390-2.
Civil justice in Renaissance Scotland: the origins of a central court by A. M. Godfrey in English Historical Review (2010).
The pen and the people: English letter writers, 1660-1800, by S. E. Whyman in English Historical Review 126 (2011), 952-953. 18
Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz in Economic History Review 64, 1 (2011).
Famine in Scotland: the ‘Ill Years’ of the 1690s, by Karen J. Cullen in American Historical Review (2011).
The dynamics of heritage. History, memory and the Highland clearances, by Laurence Gouriévidis in International Journal of Heritage Studies (2011).
To the ends of the earth: Scotland’s global diaspora, 1750-2010, by T. M. Devine in BBC History Magazine (2011).
Ralph Tailor’s summer: a scrivener, his city and the plague, by Keith Wrightson in BBC History Magazine (December 2011), 62.
Physick and the family. Health, medicine and care in Wales, 1600-1750, by Alun Withey in Social History of Medicine (2012).
The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent, by Sarah Fraser in BBC History Magazine (August 2012), 65.
Devising, Dying and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early Modern England, by Lloyd Bonfield in English Historical Review CXXVIII. 535 (2013), 1581-3.
Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800, edited by Leigh Wetherall Dickson and Allan Ingram in History of Psychiatry 24 (March 2013), 123-5.
The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian Levack in BBC History Magazine (June 2013), 66.
A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815–1914, by Michael Fry in BBC History Magazine (January 2014), 67.
Painting the town: Scottish urban history in art, by E Patricia Dennison, Stuart Eydmann, Annie Lyell, Michael Lynch and Simon Stronach in Review of Scottish Culture (2015).
Scotland: a short history, by Christopher Harvie in BBC History Magazine (November 2014), 73.
Robert the Bruce by Fiona Watson in BBC History Magazine (December 2014), 75.
The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820, by Bob Harris and Charles McKean in Urban History (2015).
The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland, eds Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman & Lindsay Paterson in Scottish Affairs (2016). 19
Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland, eds Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan in Scottish Affairs 25, 2 (2016), 271-3.
Independence or Union. Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present, by T. M. Devine in BBC History Magazine (February 2016), 73.
Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire, by Trevor Royle in BBC History Magazine (May 2016), 71.
Jacobites. A New History of the '45 Rebellion, by Jacqueline Riding in BBC History Magazine (July 2016), 71-2. 20
WORK IN PROGRESS
PODCASTING
The history of psychiatry in Britain since the Renaissance
The first of two series of weekly podcasts will begin broadcasting in July 2016 and will end in early 2017. This series of 44 podcasts covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland during the last 500 years, looking at continuities and changes in how mental illness was understood and treated, and at the radical shifts in systems of caring for those who were either mad or mentally handicapped during the last two centuries. The coverage is broad, ranging from how mental problems were identified and described in the past through changing ideas about their causes and developing therapeutic practices to important themes such as the reasons behind the emergence of psychiatry as a profession and the rise and fall of asylums as a location of care. The series explores the history of suicide, madness in the media, psychiatry and the law, relations between medical practitioners and patients, and it assesses evidence that the incidence of mental illness has changed over time. It begins and ends with discussion of the value of history and the vital lessons that can be learned by studying the past. It aims: 1) To provide a balanced and historically reliable account of the development of both medical and social understandings of madness, against a background of dramatically changing political, scientific, economic, legal, and cultural environments. 2) To inform all branches of medicine and social work about the history of one increasingly important branch of their profession: mental health. 3) To raise awareness of attitudes towards mental health and the care of those suffering from mental disorders or disabilities, not only among the caring professions, but also the general public, including sufferers and those close to them. 4) To bring to the fore the significance of a knowledge of history to the makers of policy on social welfare, through an exploration of what lay and professional people did to help the mad over the last five centuries. History provides concrete questions, comparisons, and alternatives, and helps us to arrive at workable solutions. The second series of 26 podcasts will start broadcasting early in 2017. It is entitled ‘The voice of the mad in Britain from the Renaissance to the present day’. It uses extracts from the autograph writings of those with mental problems or from their reported speech, to explore a range of mental disorders ranging from autism and depression to schizophrenia and obsessive stalking. Through transcribed original historical manuscripts and printed sources, the series documents individual, family, and social crises related to mental disorders, including suicide, crimes of violence, protection of vulnerable adults, religious mania, and admission to lunatic asylums and the experience of living in them. The aim is twofold. First, to give a sense of what it was like for sufferers to cope with being mad or being thought mad. Second, to show how those who came into contact with mad people coped in their turn with words, moods, and acts, which they struggled to understand. 21
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN PREPARATION
‘The hard rind of legal history’: F. W. Maitland and the writing of late medieval and early modern English social history’, under consideration for inclusion in a volume of conference proceedings to celebrate the work of Chris Brooks (eds. M. Lobban, A. Green, and J. Begiato).
FUTURE PROJECTS
I am starting to research a book on knowledge of the law as shown in popular chapbooks and broadsheets published in England and Scotland c.1550-1800.
PAPERS DELIVERED
To conferences and research seminars in the universities of Adelaide, Amsterdam (Huizinga Institute), Belfast, Cambridge, Coleraine, Cork, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Galway, Glasgow, Hitotsubashi, Hokkaido, Keio, Kyoto, Lancaster, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Milan, Newcastle, Nijmegen, Paris, Tempe (Az.), Rotterdam, St Andrews, San Diego, Strathclyde, Toronto, Ulster, Utrecht, Yale, and Warwick. 22
GRANTS AWARDED BY OUTSIDE BODIES
ESRC grant W 100 2 1024 of approximately £6,000 to fund 1990 St Andrews conference ‘Conflict and identity in the economic and social history of Ireland and Scotland since the seventeenth century’ [with R. J. Morris and S. J. Connolly].
ESRC grant D 0023 2152 of £4,300 (1985-9) to fund work on Edinburgh, 1660-1760 (see publications above).
Caledonian Research Fellowship (£2,300) awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1993) to study the Scots kirk archive in Rotterdam.
Leverhulme Research Fellowship (1996-7) £14,330 for replacement salary.
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland: £900 for project on autism in history (1999).
AHRB research leave (one semester, AY1999-2000): £15,680 for replacement salary.
Australian Research Council, VU discovery (new) research grant (2005): Aus$14,000 (co- investigator with Professor David McCallum, Victoria University, Australia).
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland: £2,000 for project on suicide in Britain (2005).
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2006-9: £103,000 for replacement salary.
Invited participant, Folger seminar 6-7/3/2008.
Lewis Walpole Library fellowship (Yale), October-November 2009.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (2010).
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland: £2,000 for project on marriage celebrations in Britain (2012).
British Academy small research grant: £1685 (2012).
ADDITIONAL PRIZES AND AWARDS
Runner-up for the Credit Communal Prize in European Urban History, 1995: Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Harold Grimm prize by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1997 for ‘The consistory of the Scots church, Rotterdam: an aspect of ‘civic Calvinism’ in the 23 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996), 362-92. 24
MEMBERSHIP OF OUTSIDE BODIES AND EXTERNAL RECOGNITION
Council of the Scottish Records Association, 1985-88
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1988-date
Board of Advisers, Journal of British Studies (1991-5 inclusive)
Association of Senior Historians: member, 1992-date; convenor, 1994-99.
St Andrews representative, HELIX project (part of FIGIT funded programme to digitize and disseminate visual images), 1996-8
CAIRNS (Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland), 1998-9
Fellow of Academia Europaea (Humanities 1) 2001-date
Editorial board, BBC History Magazine, 2002-date
Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts: ‘expert of international standing’, April 2004-date
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), international assessment committee on 'Academy Professorships' (two per annum, tenable for five years) 25
Founding editor of MacMillan/Palgrave series ‘Early Modern History: Society and Culture’ with the late Professor R. W. Scribner (formerly of Harvard) and Professor Edward Muir (Northwestern).
Published (28 titles):
Samantha Meigs, The Reformations in Ireland: tradition and confessionalism, 1400-1690 (1997) Niall Ó Ciosáin, Popular literature and popular culture in Ireland, 1750-1850 (1997) Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligation: the culture of credit and social relations in early modern England (1998) Johan Verberckmoes, Laughter, jestbooks, and society in the Spanish Netherlands (1999) Thomas Safley, Matheus Miller’s memoir: a merchant’s life in seventeenth-century Germany (1999) Rudolf Dekker, Childhood memory and autobiography in Holland from the Golden Age to Romanticism (1999) Craig Koslofsky, The Reformation of the dead: death and ritual in early modern Germany, 1475-1700 (1999) Steve Hindle, The state and social change in early-modern England, c.1550-1640 (2000) Lynn Martin, Alcohol, sex and gender in early modern Europe (2000) Johannes Wolfart, Island of discord: religion, government and political culture in Lindau, 1520-1628 (2001) Clodagh Tait, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 (2002) Claire Walker, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries (2002) Eric Olsen, The Calabrian Charlatan, 1598-1603 (2002) Robert Davis, Christian slaves, Muslim masters: white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (2003) Alessandro Arcangeli, Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675 (2003) Kate Hodgkin, Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography (2006) Beat Kümin, Drinking matters: public houses and social exchange in early modern central Europe (2007) Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (2009) Richard W. Unger, Ships on maps: pictures of power in Renaissance Europe (2010) Laura McGough, Gender, Sexuality and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay (2011) 26
Ann Tlusty, The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms (2011) Robin Usher, Protestant Dublin, c.1660-1760: architecture and iconography (2012) Melinda Zook, Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714 (2013) Guido Alfani, Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy: The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2013) Peter Mazur, The New Christians of Spanish Naples, 1528-1671: A Fragile Elite (2013) Penny Roberts, Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars, c.1560-1600 (2013) Elizabeth Grayson, The lead books of Granada (2013) Caroline Castiglione, Accounting for Affection: Maternal Practice and Matrifocal Politics in Rome, 1630-1730 (2015)
Forthcoming (3 titles):
Claudio Povolo, The Novelist and the Archivist (2015) Cecilia Cristellon, Charity and Eros: Marriage, the Church, and its Judges in Renaissance Venice (1420-1545) trans. Celeste McNamara (2016) Daphna Oren-Magidor, Infertility in early modern England (2017) 27
Referee on grants and funding for AHRB, AHRC, ESRC, European Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome; US National Science Foundation; Associated Medical Services Inc. (Canadian medical research charity - like Wellcome); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Australian Research Council; Estonian Research Council (ETAg); Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences; Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders).
External assessor for Senior Lecturer, Readership and Professorial appointments: Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds Trinity, Manchester, Newcastle, Queen Mary College (London)
External adviser AHRB Centre for North-East England History, 2002-5. British Historical Statistics Project, 2010-2015.
Reader for publishers: Edward Arnold Cambridge University Press MacMillan/Palgrave Oxford University Press Manchester University Press Polity Press Routledge
Referee for journals: Albion American Historical Review Annals of Science Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Business History Review Economic History Review European History Quarterly Family and Community History Historical Research International Journal of Heritage Studies Irish Economic and Social History Journal of British Studies Journal of Historical Geography Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Law and History Review Local Population Studies Medical History Oral Tradition Review of Scottish Culture Scottish Economic and Social History 28
Scottish Historical Review Social History Social History of Medicine Studies in History and Philosophy of Science University of Toronto Quarterly
Book reviewer: see list of items above 29
DEPARTMENTAL/SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
Deputy Head of the School of History, 2011-14 Chair of Modern History, 2002-2005. Examinations officer, 1987-1992, 1998-2004. Second Arts course co-ordinator, 1991-95 (including managing transition to semesters and modules in 1994-5), 1997-2001. Safety Officer, 1991-5. Computing Officer/IT co-ordinator, 1985-2000. School of History and International Relations, RAE co-ordinator and preparer of submission, 1996 (‘5’ awarded). School of History and International Relations, Inner Management Group/School Executive, 1995-7, 2002-2006 (School of History). School Equal Opportunities Committee, 2002-2005. Mentor of junior colleagues, 2001-date
FACULTY ADMINISTRATION
Faculty Tutor, 1989-91. Arts Faculty Council committee on joint examination procedures, 1989-90. Arts and Divinity Research committee (editor of ‘Research Register’). 1991-4. Arts Faculty Council, 1993-date. St Andrews representative, SHEFC MAN computing initiative, 1995-8. Miller Prize Committee (Convener), 1997.
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
University computer equipment evaluation committee, 1989-91. Senate, 1995-2005. University Court Representative, Investments and Property Committee, 1997-2001. 30
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Two lecture courses for History Faculty:
‘Literacy and social development in Europe, 1500-1900’ and ‘The social, economic and demographic development of Scotland and England, 1500-1800’.
Supervision of undergraduates in Tripos papers covering the following areas:
History of population and family structure in Europe from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.
British political and constitutional history, 1450-1750.
European political, constitutional, social and economic history, 1300-1870.
English social and economic history, 1200-1870.
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Modern History: (current courses only)
MO1007: The Early Modern Western World, c. 1450 - c. 1770 (1st year, co-taught).
HI2001 History as a Discipline: development and key concepts (2nd year, co-taught).
MO3040: From Cradle To Grave : Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c. 1500 – 1800 (3rd/4th year; one semester).
MO3041: Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England, c. 1500 – 1800 (3rd/4th year; one semester).
MO4904: Madness and its social milieu in Britain, 1560-1820: 4th year special subject (4th year; two semesters).
SPECIALISED UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS: ERASMUS Mémoire de Maîtrise, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail (approx. 30,000 words)
I. Roger, ‘La persecution de la sorcellerie en Ecosse de la fin du XVIème au debut du XVIIIème siècle’ (1992).
L. Beucher, ‘La médecine officielle et non officielle en Ecosse au XVIIIème siècle’ (1995). 31
N. Besson, ‘The diary of John Lamont: étude thèmatique’ (1997).
POST-GRADUATE TAUGHT COURSES
Contributor to taught M.Litt. in historical sources and methods, and to Early Modern M.Litt.
POST-GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
C. Issa, ‘Obligation and choice: aspects of family and kinship in seventeenth century county Durham’, (Ph.D., 1988).
C. P. Lord, ‘Image and reality: the chapbook perspective on women in early modern Britain’, (M. Phil., 1988).
M. Belof, ‘The situation of women in 17th century Fife, as illustrated by the records of the church courts’, (M. Phil., 1991).
D. J. Adamson, ‘Insanity, idiocy and responsibility. criminal defences in southern Scotland and northern England, c1660-1830’ (PhD 2004).
H. M. Huntley, ‘Taming Debauchery: Church Discipline in the Presbytery of St Andrews and the American Colonies of New Jersey and New York, 1750-1800’ (PhD 2004).
D. Atkinson, ‘Shipbuilding and timber management in the royal dockyards, 1750-1850: an archaeological investigation of timber marks’ (PhD 2007).
D. Olafsson, ‘Post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson’, (PhD 2008).
R. Bide, ‘News and its reception in seventeenth-century England’ (PhD in progress).
H. Lawrence, ‘Memorialisation and heritage: selective representations of the history of country houses’ (PhD in progress).
INTERNAL EXAMINING OF POST-GRADUATES (Ph.D.):
G. Desbrisay, ‘Authority and discipline in Aberdeen, 1650-1700’, (St Andrews Ph.D., 1989).
E. Mijers, ‘Scotland and the United provinces, c.1680-1730. A study in intellectual and educational relations’, (St Andrews Ph.D., 2002). 32
E. M. Smith, ‘To walk upon the grass: the impact of the University of St Andrews’ Lady Literate in Arts, 1877-1892’, (St Andrews Ph.D., 2014). 33
EXTERNAL EXAMINING OF POST-GRADUATES (Ph.D.):
P. Sharpe, ‘Gender-specific demographic adjustment to changing economic circumstances: Colyton, 1538-1837’, (Cambridge Ph.D., 1988)
M. J. Mascuch, ‘Social mobility in English autobiography, 1600-1750’, (Cambridge Ph.D., 1990)
R. L. Adair: ‘Regional variations in illegitimacy and courtship patterns in England, 1538- 1754’, (Cambridge Ph.D., 1992)
A. Wood, ‘Industrial development, social change and popular politics in the mining area of north west Derbyshire, c.1600-1700’, (Cambridge Ph.D., 1993)
N. O’Ciosáin, ‘Popular literature and popular culture in Ireland, 1750-1850’, (EUI Florence Ph.D., 1995).
A. J. Mann, ‘The book trade and public policy in early modern Scotland, c.1500-c.1720’, (Stirling Ph.D., 1998).
Andrea Snowden Cast, ‘Women and drinking in early modern England’, (Adelaide Ph.D., 2001).
I. Hutchison, ‘The experience and representation of disability in nineteenth-century Scotland’, (Strathclyde Ph.D, 2004).
M. Waltz, 'Cultural representations of autism and their impact on research and treatment', (Sunderland Ph.D., 2005).
EXTERNAL EXAMINING (UNDERGRADUATE)
Oxford Brookes University 2012-14
Further Information
I have taught basic computing to honours students and postgraduates. I am reasonably proficient in the use of IT for both teaching and research.
I was one of the faculty members on a summer school in St Andrews called ‘Scotland, the Enlightenment and the American Republic’, 18th July to 1st August 1987, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. I was also a staff member lecturing on the economic and social history background to genealogical studies at a summer school in St Andrews in July 1988 and July/August 1989. I taught in a UNESCO summer school at the 34 university of Angers in France on the history of adult education and literacy in Europe, 7- 12 July 1990.
In September 1990 I organised a major ESRC funded conference of Scottish and Irish economic and social historians in St Andrews and edited the papers for publication (see books).
I have attended ‘in service training’ courses on university teaching methods and administration while working at both Cambridge and St Andrews.
I have acted as a staff tutor at the Scottish universities induction course for new lecturers, St Andrews, 5-8/9/93.
I have organised departmental reading parties in the Highlands on several occasions and still participate in these occasionally.
I have good media contacts both in Scotland and nationally.
NON-ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Yoga, Tai Chi, Swimming, Scuba Diving, Travel, Cooking, Food and Wine