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ACADEMIC SESSION 2018-19

HI2524: KINGSHIP, CLEARANCES AND CONFLICT: DEBATES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY

30 CREDITS: 11 WEEKS

PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY: The full set of school regulations and procedures is contained in the Undergraduate Student Handbook which is available online at your MyAberdeen Organisation page. Students are expected to familiarise themselves not only with the contents of this leaflet but also with the contents of the Handbook. Therefore, ignorance of the contents of the Handbook will not excuse the breach of any School regulation or procedure. You must familiarise yourself with this important information at the earliest opportunity.

COURSE CO-ORDINATOR Alastair Macdonald Office hours: Monday 11-12; Tuesday 11-12 Tel: 01224 273927 Email: [email protected]

COURSE TEAM Jackson Armstrong; Alex Campsie; Marjory Harper; Douglas Smith For contact details see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history/

Discipline Administration

Mrs Barbara McGillivray 2019

- 50-52 College Bounds Room CB001 2018 | 01224 272199 - [email protected]

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TIMETABLE For time and place of classes, please see MyAberdeen

Students can view their university timetable at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/infohub/study/timetables-550.php

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course operates as both an introduction to Scottish History and as a detailed engagement with historiographies, debates and controversies about the country’s past, from around 1100 to modern times.

In terms of the introductory aspect of the course, the lecture schedule, after offering a chronological foundation in the first week, focuses on important general themes on a weekly basis. This coverage will give students insights into a wide range of political, social and cultural themes which assert both the distinctiveness of the Scottish historical past, and also locate where the national experience fits in wider international frameworks. Selected core topics are discussed in more detail in tutorials. These are arranged to move forward in time chronologically, giving students an added sense of unfolding changes over time in the Scottish story. Primary and secondary sources are examined in tutorials, giving students an introduction to the sort of historical materials that can be used to gain a direct understanding of the country’s past.

Historiography, debates and controversies are placed at the heart of the course by examining such issues within the lectures. Tutorials, too, encourage engagement with historical interpretation (by using a debate format), as do the assessed essay and the end of term exam. This type of engagement with interpretation and analysis invites consideration of the value of, and the problems inherent in, studying societies through the prism of national history. A further objective is to familiarise students with the different historical issues and problems that arise when studying a dramatic ‘event’, such as the 1707 Union, or more evolutionary ‘processes’ like the ‘Europeanization’ of 12th- and early 13th-century or developing relations between ethnic

groups in the 19th and 20th centuries. Ultimately it is hoped that close 2019

- engagement with the historical past will enable students to develop a framework for a more sophisticated understanding of the state of 2018 |

- contemporary Scotland and the challenges and opportunities with which it is faced.

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INTENDED AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Aims: The course aims to introduce students to the complexities and distinctive history of Scotland between c. 1100 and 2000 through a focus on historiography, debates and controversies. Learning outcomes: By the end of the course students should be able to: • identify and critically analyse key events and themes in the history of Scotland from c. 1100 to 2000 • appreciate and apply different historiographical approaches to the study of these events and themes • develop an increasingly sophisticated awareness of the contested and problematic nature of key concepts such as ‘nation’, ‘class’, ‘religion’, and even ‘history’ itself • distinguish and appreciate the role of continuities and disjunctures in shaping societies • offer convincing interpretations of key themes in the context of awareness of existing Scottish historiography • analyse primary and secondary sources relating to the history of Scotland • clearly convey informed judgements and coherent conclusions in written and oral work

LECTURE PROGRAMME Week 1: Introduction; Chronologies and Controversies L1 (14 Jan) Introduction to the Course; Medieval Debates and Controversies Alastair Macdonald L2 (18 Jan) Early Modern and Modern Debates and Controversies Alastair Macdonald

Week 2: Scotland’s People L3 (21 Jan) A Harmonious Hybrid? The People of Scotland to c. 1560 Alastair Macdonald L4 (25 Jan) Immigration, Assimilation and Hostility: The Modern Age Alex Campsie

Week 3: Identity and Imagination 2019 - L6 (28 Jan) ‘Freedom!’: Perceptions of The Wars of Independence

2018 Alastair Macdonald |

- L5 (1 Feb) ‘A Nation in Revolt’?: Class, politics and popular protest in Modern Scotland Alex Campsie

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Week 4: Religion L7 (4 Feb) , Chronologies, Controversies I: The Medieval Church Alastair Macdonald L8 (8 Feb) Chronicles, Chronologies, Controversies II: & Reactions Jackson Armstrong

Week 5: Governance L9 (11 Feb) Patterns of Governance: Scotland, c. 1100- c. 2000 Jackson Armstrong L10 (15 Feb) Governance by the Estates?: The Covenanting ‘Revolution’ Jackson Armstrong

Week 6: Emigration L11 (18 Feb) The Mobile Scot: Scotland and the New World, 1707- 1815 Marjory Harper L12 (22 Feb) Banishment or Betterment? 19th- and 20th-Century Emigration Marjory Harper

Week 7: Anglo-Scottish Relations L13 (25 Feb) Before 1707 – Scotland and Jackson Armstrong L14 (1 Mar) After 1707 – The Age of Unions Jackson Armstrong

Week 8: The Highlands L15 (4 Mar) The Highlands in the 18th Century: From Clanship to Clearance Marjory Harper L16 (8 Mar) The Highlands, c. 1800 – c. 1920: Clearances, Congestion, Conflict Marjory Harper

Week 9: Urban Society L17 (11 Mar) Towns and Scottish society and politics I: Earliest Towns to 1750 Jackson Armstrong L18 (15 Mar) Towns and Scottish society and politics II: Scotland 1750 – 2000 Alex Campsie

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- Week 10: Popular Culture L19 (18 Mar) ‘Riot, Revelry and Rout’? Popular Culture to c. 1800 2018 |

- Alastair Macdonald L20 (22 Mar) ‘Old Firm’ and New Pastimes: Modern Popular Culture Alex Campsie

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Week 11: Scotland and Europe L21 (25 Mar) Pawns or Players? Diplomacy, War & Cultural Exchange to c.1560 Alastair Macdonald L22 (29 Mar) Religion, Revolutions and Exile c. 1560 - c. 1746 Jackson Armstrong

Week 12: Revision L23 (1 Apr) Revision Alastair Macdonald

TUTORIAL PROGRAMME Tutorials give you the opportunity to look at specific themes in more depth than can be achieved in lectures. The focus is on engaging with historiography and controversial interpretations, especially through the medium of formal debate. Students are invited to construct informed arguments and form their own interpretations. Fruitful debate and discussion requires the participation of all in the class. It is vital, this being so, that all present are well informed about the issues being discussed. As a minimum, students are asked to read the compulsory secondary source materials (which engage with relevant debates) and the short original primary source(s) for each tutorial. This material is available on MyAberdeen. In addition, you will be expected to participate in a debate on one of the core weekly topics in your tutorial group. Further details will be given in the tutorial groups. Tutorial performance constitutes one element of the assessment for the course (see below).

The role of tutors is not only to teach, but also to advise and help. Please do contact your tutor about any aspect of your studies that you feel he or she might be able to help you with. Their contact details are on the Department’s Staff Pages and tutors maintain office hours.

Week 1: No Tutorials Week 2: No Tutorials Week 3: Tutorial 1: Introduction: Aims and Objectives; A Medieval Melting Pot?: Ethnic Interactions in the Twelfth and Thirteenth

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- Week 4: Tutorial 2: A National Struggle? The Wars of Independence Week 5: Tutorial 3: Politics or Principles? The Scottish 2018 |

- Week 6: Tutorial 4: A Covenanting Revolution? The Wars of the Three Kingdoms Week 7: No Tutorials Week 8: Tutorial 5: The Great Betrayal? The 1707 Union and Week 9: Tutorial 6: Clearance or Improvement? Highland Society and the

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Week 10: Tutorial 7: Red Clydeside? Urbanization, Industrialisation and Unrest Week 11: Tutorial 8: Scotland’s Shame? Sectarianism, Religion and Ethnicity

NB: A DETAILED TUTORIAL HANDBOOK WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON MYABERDEEN

SUGGESTED READING

GENERAL TEXTS There is no set text for this course. However, there are several single-volume histories of Scotland that offer scholarly coverage of the time period and relevant historical debates. See:

R. A. Houston and W. Knox. (eds), New Penguin History of Scotland (2002) M. Lynch, Scotland: A New History (1992) A. I. Macinnes, A History of Scotland (2019) J. Wormald (ed.), Scotland: A History (2005)

For the medieval period, the following works provide a good introduction: G. W. S. Barrow, Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1306 (1981) A. Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (1985)

For the later medieval period and the early modern centuries, the following works offer important ideas and debates: K. M. Brown, Kingdom or Province? Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603-1715 (1992) J. Wormald, Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1469-1625 (1981) C. A. Whatley, Scottish Society, 1707-1830 (2000)

For the modern era see: E. A. Cameron, Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880 (2010) T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999)

R. J. Finlay, Modern Scotland 1914-2000 (2004) 2019

- C. M. M. Macdonald, Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland’s Twentieth Century (2009) 2018 |

- T. C. Smout, A Century of the , 1830-1950 (1986)

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JOURNALS Scholarly journals are an excellent source for exploring historiography, debates and controversies. Among those which often feature Scottish material are the following:

History Scotland Innes Review Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Northern History Northern Scotland Scottish Historical Review

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL APPRAOCHES N. Ascherson, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland (2002) M. Ash, The Strange Death of Scottish History (1980) T. Brotherstone, et al. (eds), Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach (1999) E. J. Cowan and R. Findlay (eds), Scottish History: The Power of the Past (2002) G. Donaldson, Scotland: The Shaping of the Nation (1993) G. Donaldson, Scotland’s History: Approaches and Reflections (1995), especially ch. 4 T. M. Devine, ‘Whither Scottish History: Preface’, Scottish Historical Review, 73 (1994) A. Mackillop, ‘The State of Early Modern and Modern Scottish Histories’, Scottish Historical Review, 92 (2013) G. Menzies (ed.), The Scottish Nation (1972) G. Menzies (ed.), In Search of Scotland (2001) R. Mitchison (ed.), Why Scottish History Matters (1997)

WEEK 2: SCOTLAND’S PEOPLE G. W. S. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History (1980) D. Broun, ‘Anglo-French acculturation and the Irish element in Scottish identity’, in B. Smith (ed.), Britain and , 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change (1999) D. Broun and M. MacGregor (eds), Mìorun Mòr nan Gall, ‘The Great Ill-Will of

the Lowlander’? Lowland Perceptions of the Highlands, Medieval and 2019

- Modern (2009) S. Bruce, No Pope of Rome: Militant in Modern Scotland (1986) 2018 |

- T. M. Devine, Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries (1991) T. M. Devine (ed.), Scotland's Shame?: Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland (2000) T. M. Devine and R. Mitchison (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol. 1,

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A. Dickson and J. H. Treble (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol. 3: 1914- 1990 (1992) W. H. Fraser and R. J. Morris (eds), People and Society in Scotland vol. 2, 1830- 1914 (1990) M. D. Hammond, ‘Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History’, Scottish Historical Review, 85 (2006) T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830 (1969) T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 (1986)

WEEK 3: IDENTITY AND IMAGINATION Lecture 5: A. D. M. Barrell, Medieval Scotland (2000) G. W. S. Barrow, and the Community of the Realm in Scotland (3rd ed., 1988) E. J. Cowan, ‘Identity, Freedom and the ’, in D. Broun, et al. (eds), Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland through the Ages (1998) C. Edington, ‘Paragons and Patriots: National Identity and the Chivalric Ideal in Late Medieval Scotland’ in D. Broun, et al. (eds), Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland through the Ages (1998) A. Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (1984) M. Lynch, Scotland: A New History (1991) R. Nicholson, Scotland: The Later (1978) M. Penman, The Scottish Civil War: The Bruces and the Bailiols and the War for the Control of Scotland 1286-1356 (2002) F. Watson, Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1307 (1998) F. Watson, ‘The Enigmatic Lion: Scotland, Kingship and National Identity in the Wars of Independence’, in D. Broun, et al. (eds), Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland through the Ages (1998) F. Watson, ‘The Wars of Independence’, in B. Harris and A. R. MacDonald (eds), Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c. 1100-1707, Volume 1 (2007), 32-47 Lecture 6: Reading list to be distributed

WEEK 4: RELIGION 2019

- C. G. Brown, Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707 (1997) C. G. Brown, The Death of Christian Britain (2nd edition, 2009) 2018 |

- S. J. Brown and M. Fry (eds), Scotland in the Age of the Disruption (1993) J. K. Cameron, The First Book of Discipline (1972) I. B. Cowan, The (1982) J. Dawson, (2016) J. Dawson, Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587 (2007), Chapters 9 and 10 Course Document

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J. Kirk, Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk (1989) J. McCallum (ed.), Scotland’s Long Reformation: new perspectives on Scottish religion, c. 1500 – c. 1660 (2016) M. Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland (2002)

WEEK 5: GOVERNANCE G.W.S. Barrow,.Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000-1306 (1981) Keith M. Brown & R.J. Tanner (eds.), Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1235- 1560 (2004) Keith M. Brown, Kingdom or Province, Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603-1715 (1992) M.H. Brown, ‘Scotland Tamed? Kings and Magnates in Late Medieval Scotland: a review of recent work’, Innes Review, 45 (1994) D. Broun, ‘The Declaration of Arbroath: pedigree of a nation’, and G.G. Simpson, ‘The Declaration of Arbroath: what significance when?’, in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), The Declaration of Arbroath: History, Significance, Setting (2003) F. Downie, She is But a Woman: Queenship in Scotland 1424–1463 (2006) A.A.M. Duncan, Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom (1975) W. Ferguson, ‘The making of the of 1707’, Scottish Historical Review, 43 (1964) M. Fry, Patronage and principle: a political history of Modern Scotland (1987) J. Goodare, The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625 (2004) A. Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland, 1306-1469 (1984) I.G.C. Hutchison, A Political History of Scotland, 1832-1914 (1986) I.G.C. Hutchison, Scottish Politics in the Twentieth Century (2003) J. McCaffrey, Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (1998) R.A. Mason, ‘Kingship, Tyranny and the Right to Resist in Fifteenth Century Scotland’, Scottish Historical Review, 66 (1987) J. Morrill (ed.), The Scottish in its British Context (1990) G. Morton, Unionist-Nationalism: governing urban Scotland, 1830-1860 (1999) N. Reid, ‘The Kingless Kingdom: The Scottish Guardianships of 1286-1306’, Scottish Historical Review, 61 (1982) J. Patrick, ‘A Union Broken? Politics in Scotland’, in J. Wormald (ed.), Scotland Revisited (1991)

D. Stevenson, The Scottish Revolution, 1637-1644 (2003) 2019

- D. Stevenson, Revolution and Counter Revolution in Scotland, 1644-1651 (2003) R.M. Sunter, Patronage and Politics in Scotland, 1707-1832 (1986) 2018 |

- R.J. Tanner, The Late Medieval (2001). C. Whatley, Bought and Sold for English Gold? Explaining the Union of 1707 (1994) J.M. Wormald, ‘Taming the Magnates?’ in K.J. Stringer (ed.), Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (1985)

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WEEK 6: EMIGRATION T.M. Devine, Scotland’s Empire, 1600-1815: the origins of the global diaspora (2012) T.M. Devine, To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s global diaspora 1750-2010 (2011) T.M. Devine (ed.), Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society (1992) M.D. Harper, Adventurers and Exiles: the great Scottish exodus (2003) M.D. Harper, Scotland No More? The Scots who left Scotland in the twentieth century (2012) M.D. Harper, ‘Crofter colonists in Canada: an experiment in empire settlement in the 1920s’, Northern Scotland, first series, 14: 1 (1994), 69-107 A.H. McCarthy (ed.), A Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century (2006) A.J. Murdoch, British Emigration, 1603-1914 (2004) A.J. Murdoch, Scotland and America, c. 1600 – c. 1800 (2010) E. Richards, ’s Children: emigration from England, Scotland, and Ireland since 1600 (2004) E. Richards, A History of the , vol. 2: emigration, protest, reasons (1985)

WEEK 7: ANGLO-SCOTTISH RELATIONS G.W.S. Barrow, Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000-1306 (1981) G.W.S. Barrow, Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages (1992) M.H. Brown, The Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (2004) S.J. Brown & C. Whatley (eds), The Union of 1707: New Dimensions (2008) – also available as Scottish Historical Review, 87 (2008) R.R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the , 1093-1343 (2000) T.M. Devine (ed.), Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007 (, 2008), 123- 39 R.J. Finlay, Independent and Free: and the origins of the , 1918-1945 (1994) M. Lee, 's Solomon: James VI and I in his three kingdoms (1990) C. Whatley, Bought and Sold for English Gold? Explaining the Union of 1707

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- WEEK 8: THE HIGHLANDS 2018 |

- J.A. Burnett, The Making of the Modern , 1939-65: withstanding the ‘colossus of advancing materialism’ (2011) E.A. Cameron, Land for the People? Government and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1880-1925 (1996) E.A. Cameron (ed.), Recovering from the Clearances: land struggle,

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T.M. Devine, Clanship to Crofters’ War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands (1994) T.M. Devine, The Great Highland Famine: hunger, emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century (2009) J. Hunter, Set Adrift Upon the World: the Sutherland Clearances (2015) J. Hunter, The Making of the Community (2010) J. Hunter, ‘Sheep and deer: Highland sheep farming, 1850-1900’, Northern Scotland, first series, vol. 1 (1972-3), 199-222 Andrew Mackillop, More Fruitful than the Soil: Army, Empire, and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (2000) A.I. Macinnes, ‘Highland Society in the Age of Improvement’, in A. Cooke (et al, eds), Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present, Volume 1: The Transformation of Scotland, 1707-1850 (2nd edition, 2003) E. Richards, Debating the Highland Clearances (2007) E. Richards, The Highlands Clearances (2012) E. Richards, ‘Highland emigration in the age of Malthus’, Northern Scotland, new series, vol. 2 (2011), 60-82 D. Taylor, ‘The Wild Black Region’: Badenoch 1750-1800 (2016) A.M. Tindley, The Sutherland Estate, c. 1860 – 1914: aristocratic decline, estate management and land reform (2006) A. Tyrell, ‘What Shall We Do with the Duke? Public Memory and Culture Wars in the Scottish Style’, Humanities Research, vol. 10, 2 (2003)

WEEK 9: URBAN SOCIETY J. Butt, ‘Housing’ in R.A. Cage (ed.), The Working Class in , 1750-1914 (1987) S. Checkland, Industry and Ethos. Scotland, 1832-1914 (1989) A. Cooke, Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the present, Vol. 2: The modernisation of Scotland, 1850 (1998) M.A. Crowther, ‘Poverty, Health and Welfare’ in W. H. Fraser and R. J. Morris (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol. 2, 1830-1914 (1990) P.E. Dennison, Urban Society and Economy’, in Bob Harris and Alan R. Macdonald (eds), Scotland: the Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100- 1707: vol II: Early Modern Scotland, c.1500-1707 (2007) T.M. Devine, ‘Urbanisation’ in T. M. Devine and R. Mitchison (eds), People and

Society in Scotland, vol. 2, 1760-1820 (1988) 2019

- E. Ewen, ‘Townlife and Trade’ in Bob Harris, and Alan R. Macdonald (eds), Scotland: The Making of the Nation, c.1100-1707: vol. I: The Scottish Nation: 2018 |

- origins to c.1500 (2006) E. Gordon & Ester Breitenbach (eds), The World is ill divided: women’s work in Scotland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1990) G. Gordon (ed.), Perspectives on the Scottish City (1985) G. Gordon, & D.B. Dicks (eds), Scottish Urban History (1983) Course Document

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William Knox, Industrial Nation: work, culture and society in Scotland, 1800- present (1999) M. Lynch, ‘Whatever Happened to the Medieval ?’, Scottish Economic and Social History, 4 (1984) M. Lynch, ‘Towns and Townspeople in 15th-century Scotland’, in J.A.F. Thomson (ed.), Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century (1988) M. Lynch, Early Modern Town in Scotland (1987) M. Lynch, ‘Continuity and Change in Urban Society, 1500-1700’, in R.A. Houston (ed.), Scottish Society, 1500-1800 (1989) J.M. Mackenzie, ‘“The Second City of the Empire”: Glasgow - Imperial Municipality’ in F. Driver & D. Gilbert (eds), Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (2003) I. Maver, Glasgow (2000) R.J. Morris, ‘Urbanisation and Scotland’ in W. H. Fraser and R. J. Morris (eds), People and Society in Scotland, vol. 2, 1830-1914 (1990)

WEEK 10: POPULAR CULTURE A History of Everyday Life in Scotland (various editors, 3 vols, 2010-11) J. Burnett, Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860 (2000) E.J. Cowan (ed.), The People’s Past. Scottish Folk, Scottish History (1980) A.J. Durie, George Washington Wilson: Sport and Leisure in Victorian Scotland (1988) G.P.T. Finn, ‘Faith, Hope and Bigotry: Case Studies of Anti-Catholic Pejudice in Scottish Soccer and Society’, in G. Jarvie, & G. Walker (eds), Scottish Sport in the Making of the Nation. Ninety-Minute Patriots? (1994), 91-112 K. Fisher, ‘The Crying of Ane Play: Robin Hood and Maying in Sixteenth- Century Scotland’, Medieval and Drama in England, 12 (1999), 19-58 G. Jarvie, & J. Burnett (eds), Sport, Scotland and the Scots (2000) F.P. Magoun, ‘Scottish Popular Football, 1424-1815’, American Historical Review, 37, no.1 (Oct, 1931), 1-13 I. Maver, ‘Leisure Time in Scotland During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, in J. Beech, et al. (eds), Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 9 (2005), 174-203

W.J. Murray, The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland (1984) 2019

- G. Walker & T. Gallagher (eds), Sermons and Battle Hymns: Protestant Popular Culture in Modern Scotland (1990) 2018 |

- WEEK 11: SCOTLAND AND EUROPE Lecture 21: D. Ditchburn, ‘Scotland and Europe’, in B. Harris and A.R. MacDonald (eds), Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707, Volume 1

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D. Ditchburn, Scotland and Europe: the Medieval Kingdom and its contacts with Chistendom c.1215-1545: Volume I: Religion, Culture and Commerce (2001) D. Ditchburn, ‘Trade with Northern Europe 1297-1540’, in M. Lynch, et al. (eds), The Scottish Medieval Town (1998) A. Stevenson, ‘Trade with the South 1070-1513’ in M. Lynch, et al (eds), The Scottish Medieval Town (1998) A.D.M. Barrrell, ‘The Background to Cum Universi: Scoto-Papal Relations 1159- 1192’ Innes Review, 46 (1995), 116-38 P.C. Ferguson, Medieval Papal Representatives in Scotland: Legates, Nuncios and Judges Delegate 1125-1286 (1977) D.E.R. Watt, ‘The Papacy and Scotland in the Fifteenth Century’ in R.B. Dobson (ed.), The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century (1984) E. Bonner, ‘Scotland’s “” with France 1295-1560’, History, 84 (1999), 5-30 N. MacDougall, An Antidote to the English: The Auld Alliance, 1295-1560 (2001) A. Grant, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (1984), Chapter 2 ‘Auld Inemie and Auld Alliance’ L.J. Macfarlane, William Elphinstone and the 1431-1514 (1985) Lecture 22: G. Gardiner, The Scottish Exile Community in the Netherlands 1660-1690 (2004) G. Glozier, Scottish Soldiers in France in the Reign of the Sun King: Nursery for Men of Honour (2004) A. Grosjean, An Unofficial Alliance: Scotland and Sweden (2003) A. Grosjean and S. Murdoch (eds), Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005) S. Murdoch (ed.), Scotland and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 (2001) S. Murdoch, Britain, Denmark, and the 1603-1660 (2003) S. Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Association in Northern Europe 1603-1746 (2006) S. Murdoch and A. MacKillop (eds), Fighting for Identity: The Scottish Military

Experience 1550-1900 (2002) 2019

- S. Talbott, Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations 1560-1713 (2014) D. Worthington, Scots in the Hapsburg Service 1618-1648 (2003) 2018 |

- D. Worthington (ed.), British and Irish Immigrants and Exiles in Europe 1603- 1688 (2009) D. Worthington (ed.), British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe 1560-1688 (2012) K Zickermann, Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with

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ASSESSMENT First attempt: • one two-hour examination at 50% of the final assessment • one assessed essay of 2,500 words at 40% of the final assessment • meaningful tutorial participation at 10% of the final assessment (‘meaningful participation’ requires routine verbal contributions and participation in a formal debate)

Resit: • one two-hour written examination (100%)

To view the CGS Descriptors please go to MyAberdeen- Organisations- Divinity, History, & Philosophy Student Information for Undergraduates. The link to the CGS Descriptors is on the left hand menu.

PLEASE NOTE: In order to pass a course on the first attempt, a student must attain a Common Grading Scale (CGS) mark of at least E3 on each element of course assessment. Failure to do so will result in a grade of no greater than CGS E1 for the course as a whole.

If you submit your work on time, you can expect that feedback will normally be provided within three working weeks (excluding vacation periods) of the submission deadline.

TUTORIAL PARTICIPATION & PRESENTATIONS (10%) It is assumed that students will attend and participate in all tutorials. Tutorial assessment will be based on such participation. Students will be awarded a Common Grading Scale (CGS) mark for the number of tutorials in which they make a useful contribution, and on the quality of both their presentations and general contributions, as laid out in the following table:

Useful participation Letter Number Quality of presentation

(number of tutorials) and contributions 1 Excellent 2019 - 8 A 3 Good

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1 Excellent 5 D 2 Good 3 Weak 1 Excellent 4 E 2 Good 3 Weak 1 Excellent 2 or 3 F 2 Good 3 Weak 1 Excellent 0 or 1 G 2 Good 3 Weak

If students are prevented from attending a tutorial, but have a good cause, lack of contribution for the relevant week will not be penalised. So, if useful participation is made in seven tutorials but one is missed through illness a grade of ‘A’ will still be awarded. Failure to attend tutorials without good cause, however, may lead to loss of the class certificate for the course.

Class Debates. Details of the debate format will be arranged in the first tutorial. All students will either present a case for or against a debate proposition related to one of the core weekly themes, or they will act as a moderator and facilitator for the discussion. Debate-presentations should last no more than 10 minutes, and should seek to advance a compelling historically- informed argument in favour of the case being made. Talks should be accompanied by visual support in the form of a handout and/or a PowerPoint presentation.

ESSAYS (40%) The essays should be approximately 2,500 words in length, including quotations and foot- or endnotes but excluding the bibliography. Students should note that they can be penalised for work which is either too long or too short. Students should sign up for their chosen question on MyAberdeen, which limits numbers taking each question to ease pressure on library resources. NB: Essay questions

will be available for selection at the start of Week 2.

2019 - Formal written and oral requirements: It is expected that essays will be

2018 submitted in word-processed format. They must be accompanied by a |

- bibliography and foot- or endnotes conforming to established academic conventions (see below, and the History Department referencing guide on MyAberdeen). Essays will be returned with a mark taken from the Common Grading Scale, with written comments. You will be given the opportunity to discuss your essay, techniques of essay writing, and other aspects of the course Course Document

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with your tutor. See Departmental Guidelines (and below) for information on extensions and the late submission of work.

The main criteria for assessing the quality of your work are:

• a critical, questioning approach. Did this really happen as the source states? Are interpretations given by historians acceptable? • degree of own contribution (composition and thinking) as opposed to reproduction • clarity of argument, use of historical evidence, and appropriate organisation • degree and clarity of how question is addressed and answered, and put into general context • choice of literature • appropriate use of specialist historical vocabulary, concepts etc. • language and style

Essays must have appropriate references (footnotes or endnotes) and a separate bibliography. Marks might be deducted for inadequate referencing and bibliography.

GUIDE FOR REFERENCING Please refer to the History Department’s coursework referencing guide, available on MyAberdeen, for guidelines on how to present references and bibliography correctly in your essay, as well as other useful essay-writing tips.

ASSESSMENT DEADLINES Assessed essay: 3PM ON MONDAY 25 MARCH (WEEK 11)

SUBMISSION ARRANGEMENTS When uploading assignments, please do the following:

1. Submit a .doc or .docx and include the word count.

2. Submit by the due date, no hard copy will be required unless directly 2019 - requested by the Course Coordinator through My Aberdeen.

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- 3. In advance of uploading, please save the assignment with your student ID number listed in the filename, i.e. 59999999 HI2524 Essay 1.

4. When asked to enter a title for the assignment, please enter a title identical to the name of your saved assignment, i.e. 59999999 HI2524

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Please note: Failure to submit by the due date (unless a prior arrangement has been made) will result in a deduction of marks. Where no submission is received, this will result in a mark of zero.

Please note: Safeassign text-matching software will be used. However the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy reserves the right also to submit material to TurnitinUK when deemed necessary.

EXAMINATION (50%): The examination will take place in the April/May diet and will last for TWO hours. Three questions out of a choice of twelve have to be answered, and the examination will cover all areas of the course. In particular, the general themes and ideas discussed in the lectures and in the tutorials will be covered. You will have the opportunity not only to demonstrate knowledge about a range of historical topics, but also the fundamental skills of a historian, namely critical analytical assessment. Examinations will be marked accordingly: although we cannot as historians argue without knowledge, it is the argument, backed up by evidence, that counts.

NB: Although this is the second year of the course running with its present title, it ran in 2016-17 under the title HI2523 ‘An Introduction to Scottish History’, and past papers under that title will be useful for you. A first-year version of the course ran before that with the course code ‘HI1522’, and questions from those past papers might also be worth consulting. Past exam papers can be viewed at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/learning- and-teaching/for-students/exam-papers/.

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates whose first language is not English may refer to English/native tongue dictionaries in History exams. Electronic dictionaries are not permitted in the examination venue. Invigilators are entitled to request inspection of dictionaries prior to the examination, thumbing through them to that there is no extra written material present.

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