18 articles in this issue
Sierra Rose Dye
In early modern Scotland, thousands of people were accused and tried for the crime of witchcraft, many of whom were women. This paper examines the particular qualities associated with witches in Scottish belief – specifically speech and sexuality – in ord... see more
Jennifer Marie Van Vliet
In the decades between Samuel Johnson’s and James Boswell’s tour of the Hebrides and the popular success of Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, a series of synecdochic associations gradually positioned the Highlands as the symbolic cornerstone of British roma... see more
Dougal McNeill
This article examines the treatment of male sexuality in James Kelman’s fiction, paying particular attention to his frequent representations of and reflections on masturbation and sexual loneliness. As part of an extended appreciation and critique of the ... see more
Sandy Heffernan
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Tyler James Chamilliard
Richard Oram, Domination and Lordship, Scotland 1070-1230. The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Volume 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 430. ISBN 978-0-7486-1497-4. £85.00.
Daniel MacLeod
Steven Reid, Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560-1625. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 328. ISBN 978-1-4094-0005-9. £65.00.
Benjamin Hudson
John Marsden, Kings, Mormaers, Rebels: Early Scotland’s Other Royal Family. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-9065566-19-7. £20.00.
Heather Parker
Edward J. Cowan & Lizanne Henderson, eds., A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000-1600. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-0-7486-2157-6. £24.99.
Martin Greig
Keith M. Brown, Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 334. ISBN 978-0-7486-1298-7. £50.00.
Amy Louise Blakeway
Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, eds., The History of the Scottish Parliament, vol. 3: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-7486-1486-8. £70.00.
Philip M Dunshea
Tim Clarkson, The Men of the North: the Britons of Southern Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-1-906566-18-0. £20.00.
Jacqueline Irene Cannata
Katherine Ashley
Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury, eds., European Stevenson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp. 287. ISBN 1-4438-1436-9. £39.99.
Mark Dorsey
W. Hamish Fraser, Chartism in Scotland. Chartist Studies Series. Pontypool: Merlin Press, 2010. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-0-85036-666-2. £18.95.
Michael Steven Newton
Matthew Dziennik
John A. Burnett, The Making of the Modern Scottish Highlands, 1939-1965: Withstanding the ‘colossus of advancing materialism.’ Ulster and Scotland Series. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 312. 978-1-84682-241-4. €55.00.
Aaron Clay Denlinger
John McCallum, Reforming the Scottish Parish: The Reformation in Fife, 1560-1640. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 286. ISBN 978-07546-6910-4. £65.00.
Sarah Elizabeth McCaslin
Mark R.M. Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. 361. ISBN 978-90-04-18432-9. EUR €101.00.