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The Scottish people and the French Revolution
In: The Enlightenment world 6
Working with distressed young people
In: Empowering youth and community work practice
Politics and the rise of the press: Britain and France, 1620 - 1800
In: Historical connections
A patriot press: national politics and the London press in the 1740s
In: Oxford historical monographs
The Post Office and the Making of North Britain, c. 1750–c. 1840
In: Journal of Scottish historical studies, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 1-30
ISSN: 1755-1749
While the importance of closer, wider communications to Scotland and Scots adaptation to life within the Union, and the development of Britishness, has been commonly acknowledged, the role of the Post Office within these processes has never been systematically examined. This article charts the increasingly rapid development of postal services within Scotland and linking Scotland to London and the rest of England and Wales from the mid eighteenth century. It demonstrates the sheer extent and scope of growth of postal services in Scotland, and explores their use by different sections of Scottish society, by the mid nineteenth century. While commerce and manufacturing, as well as banking, together with the landed classes, account for the main sources of growth in use of the post, they were far from the sole beneficiaries of expanding, more efficient services. Scotland participated fully in the democratization of letter writing which was a feature of the Georgian period. The article then reflects on the consequences of these developments for the enfolding of Scotland within Britain and the rise of the latter as a salient framework within which people lived their lives. It underlines, in this context, the contemporary importance of letter writing and transmission of printed information to sustaining and forging connections and relationships between people and businesses, and overcoming frictions of distance within Britain.
The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787): Gambling and the Law in Later Georgian Britain
In: Parliamentary history, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 462-480
ISSN: 1750-0206
AbstractThis article brings forward new evidence regarding the circumstances surrounding the origins and authorship of the Gaming Bill of 1782, which was designed to suppress the roulette‐type game of 'Even and Odd'. Hitherto, this Bill has presented something of a puzzle, not only in terms of why it was proposed, but its strange fate; it was never signed into law. The Gaming Bill is viewed alongside a parallel series of parliamentary measures from the 1780s aimed at regulating more tightly the official lottery and derivatives thereof, including, most controversially, lottery insurance, one aspect of which was betting on the outcomes of the lottery draw. By placing these initiatives within a single analytical frame, much can be learnt about the role of parliament and the law in regulating gambling in this period, but also the profound limits of the law in this sphere.
The papers of John Hatsell: clerk of the House of Commons The papers of John Hatsell: clerk of the House of Commons , edited by Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, Camden Fifth Series, Vol. 39, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xiv + 230pp., £45, ISBN 97811088424...
In: Parliaments, estates & representation: Parlements, états & représentation, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 387-389
ISSN: 1947-248X
A Portrait of Influence: Life and Letters of Arthur Onslow, the Great Speaker. Edited by MaryClayton (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 14.) Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2017. xii, 323 pp. Paperback £24.99. ISBN 9781119424932
In: Parliamentary history, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 295-297
ISSN: 1750-0206
Scots burghs, 'privilege' and the Court of Session in the eighteenth century
In: Urban history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 381-401
ISSN: 1469-8706
ABSTRACTA striking feature of the history of the Scots burgh in this period, and of bodies within it, was their readiness to resort to legal redress in the Court of Session, Scotland's leading civil court. The law was a regular and often intrusive presence in burgh life, a means by which burghs, guildries and trades incorporations defended their privileges. This article will explore this propensity in relation to what it can tell us both about urban identity and the constitution of urban community in this period, but it will also begin to examine the role which the law may have played in the re-constitution and re-shaping of urban community. In other words, it will consider the law and judgments made in the Court of Session as active forces in a wider process of governance. We know relatively little, in fact, about this dimension of urban governance, but the surviving record is a rich one and demands much more systematic examination.
Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680–1832: Essays in Honour of D.W. Hayton. Edited by ClyveJones and JamesKelly. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 2014. x, 275 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9781118813546
In: Parliamentary history, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 409-411
ISSN: 1750-0206
Review: Deidre Dawson and Pierre Morère, eds, Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses: Lewisburg and London, 2004; 348 pp.; 0838755267, $49.50 (hbk)
In: European history quarterly, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 473-474
ISSN: 1461-7110
Parliament in the Public Sphere: A View of Serial Coverage at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
In: Parliamentary history, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 62-75
ISSN: 1750-0206
Towns, improvement and cultural change in Georgian Scotland: the evidence of the Angus burghs, c. 1760-1820
In: Urban history, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 195-212
ISSN: 1469-8706
This article uses the concept of 'improvement' to examine the experiences of five burghs in Angus – Dundee, Montrose, Forfar, Brechin and Arbroath – in the later Georgian era. Designed as a contribution to British history in a comparative sense, and using the five burghs as case studies, it seeks to identity distinctively Scottish, as well as common, British elements in Scottish urbanization during a crucial phase in its development. Existing studies of Scottish urban society in this period focus very heavily on the impact of industrialization on large towns and cities, especially Glasgow. Partly as a result, other themes have been neglected or obscured. A second main aim, therefore, is to offer an alternative framework for understanding the development and experiences of the smaller towns in which most of the Scottish urban population lived prior to 1830.