History and Classics PhD thesis collection
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Parliament, the parties and the Scottish question, 1974-1979
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-18)This thesis investigates the rise and fall of the Scottish assembly project of the 1970s. It provides the first full-length historical study to focus on the devolution debate of the 1974-1979 Parliament. At the heart ... -
Slave ‘crime and punishment’: management, authority and discretion in Roman law and literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-18)This thesis investigates elite approximations to ‘crime and punishment’ in Roman slavery. ‘Crime’ and ‘punishment’ are understood here in a malleable sense, including delicts and crimes known in Roman law (and their ... -
Loyalty in captivity: ideas and identity among Ulster Loyalist paramilitary prisoners, 1972 - 1988
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-10)This study explores the prison experience of Ulster loyalist paramilitary prisoners during the 'Troubles' conflict, those belonging to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA), who waged ... -
Orange Order in Belfast and Glasgow, 1910 - 1914
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-21)This PhD thesis examines the Orange Order in Belfast and Glasgow during the years of the third Home Rule crisis, 1910 to 1914. It argues that Orangeism was a remarkably flexible construction and that during this period the ... -
Text as political weapon: the legacy of the Attic orators in Early Hellenistic Athens (322-261 BCE)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-13)This thesis investigates the transmission and political reception of fourth-century Athenian political oratory in early Hellenistic Athens (henceforth EHA) – viz. the period spanning from the Lamian War (322 BCE) to the ... -
Revolutionary reverberations: Russia and Ireland in war and revolution, 1905-1923
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-08)The period between 1905 and 1923 was one of immense political instability around the world, but particularly in Russia and Ireland. Both countries emerged from this period with new state structures: Russia as part of the ... -
From the Adriatic to the Alps: an examination of inland trade in Northern Italy between the First Century BC and Fifth Century AD
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-23)Within the Italian peninsula, Northern Italy has previously been maligned as a marginal and unimportant inland region during the Roman era. Inland areas are assumed to have been difficult to access, with long-distance ... -
Electoral truce and party politics in Scotland during the Second World War
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-21)This thesis focuses on Scottish politics during the Second World War and argues that the electoral truce, which was agreed at the outbreak of war, had a significant impact on the dynamics of party-politics in Scotland. ... -
Hellenistic Galatians: representation and self-presentation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-03)This thesis explores Greek and Roman representations of the Hellenistic Galatians with a focus on how the concepts of the ‘barbarian’ and ‘Hellenisation’ influenced the creation, development and persistence of perceptions. ... -
Negotiation and mobility in Early Modern Venice: Armenian, Jewish, and Ottoman Turkish merchants and the Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia, c.1541-1700
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-15)This thesis provides a new analysis of negotiations between foreign merchants and Venice’s board of trade, the Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the last two decades, ... -
8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, East Belfast and the Great War
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-13)The 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was formed in Belfast in September 1914, part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, and participated in several major battles on the Western Front. This is a socio-military study, placing the ... -
Connecting sea? Modelling economic cohesion in the Roman Adriatic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-11)This thesis focuses on modelling complex economic concepts in the Roman Adriatic. A quantitative focus is taken, and an effort is made to consider evidence from across the region, both terrestrial and maritime, from ... -
Rights not charity: the radical roots of the British Legion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-04)This thesis examines the creation of several ex-service organisations during and shortly after the First World War, the campaigns that preceded their formation, and the processes that led to the amalgamation of four ... -
Becoming a god in Greek thought
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)This thesis seeks to conceptualise the literary universe in ancient Greek literature as a ‘cosmic society’ and thereby to examine the defining features of gods and humans and how excellent human individuals might achieve ... -
Domestic medicine in Early Modern Scotland, c. 1650 – c. 1750
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-22)This thesis examines Scottish domestic medicine in the century between 1650 and 1750. Much has been written about household medicine in the English context, but only a handful of scholars have dealt with the concept in ... -
Epic in uncharted waters: the genres of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-16)This thesis explores the generic identity of the Argonautica of the Hellenistic poet Apollonius Rhodius. The strong similarities between the Argonautica and Homeric poetry in terms of language, structure and content ... -
Commemorating the Battle of Waterloo in Great Britain,1815-1852
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-22)This thesis analyses the range of practices that developed to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo in nineteenth-century Britain. It examines the role of material culture in these acts of remembrance and compares how ... -
Stone and the built landscape on Roman Cyprus: case studies of Kourion and Amathus
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-11)The study of stone and built landscape in Roman cities is an emerging field which is currently expanding through the surge of new interest. Cyprus is one of the regions of the eastern Mediterranean that has been ... -
Political commitment of Eric Hobsbawm: the passion for communist politics in a transformed world (1978-2012)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)The 1970s were a decade of transition on the European Left, characterised by intellectual ferment and ideological diversity. For Western European communists specifically, the 1970s saw the emergence of Eurocommunism, ... -
Becoming argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-17)This thesis examines the Scottish experience in the California Gold Rush through the lens of the Scottish diaspora. From 1848 to 1860, at least 3,000 Scots from across Scotland and its wider diaspora funnelled into the ...
