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Seminars and Events at the Institute for Northern Studies, Scholars have long recognised that studying the history of crime and criminal justice can offer unique insights into the ordering structures ...

The Scottish Privy Council from Revolution to Union, 1689 to 1708

Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

This comprehensive textbook synthesizes the latest research on Scotland from 1560 to 1745, exploring political, social, cultural, religious, and economic themes through sixteen accessible essays that ...

Dr Allan Kennedy is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. He is a historian of early modern Scotland, with a particular interest in the seventeenth century. His work explores the n...

Allan has consolidated a strong reputation in the field since completing his doctorate at the University of Stirling in 2011. Focussing particularly on the later seventeenth century, Allan has publish...

Allan Kennedy unpacks what looking at crime and punishment can reveal about Scottish values in the 17th century

Scholars have long recognized that petitioning played a central role in early modern political systems. Analysis of the practice, particularly in a British context, has tended to emphasize its func...

Since at least the 1970s, rape, and male sexual violence against women more generally, has been a recurring focus of feminist historiography. While this body of scholarship has provoked criticism, it ...

For over 300 years, the Scottish Clan Buchanan has been without a chief. That is, until now… Historical fact and historical fantasy collide in Meet the Buchanans, an offbeat documentary observing the...

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Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland