Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty.
Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic …

It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the
Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet …

Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct
Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête noir of studies of …

The Admiralty records that preserve almost one hundred and fifty years of Royal Navy
prosecutions for sodomy and other sexually proscribed acts provide an arresting chapter in …

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a
recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers …

Three major conclusions are derived from close study of Britain's pioneering directories in
the 1770s and 1780s. First, they show that over 30,000 leading townsmen and women were …

On 5 February 1762, the Duchess of Atholl wrote to her son about how much she was
looking forward to reading the latest volumes of David Hume's History of England (1754 …

I would like to thank both of my supervisors Bob Harris and Charles McKean for their support
throughout the many years of a part-time PhD, keeping me going when times were tough …

This article assesses the impact made by the Scottish Enlightenment on eighteenth-and
early nineteenth-century readers, focusing especially on their responses to the controversial …

This thesis examines the dialogue genre in seventeenth-century England. In 1681 when
Henry Care established his periodical The Popish Courant he chose the format of a …