School of History: Recent submissions
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The Moral Parameters of Violence: The Case of the Provisional IRA
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Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in ... -
The Search for World Order and the Wars in Kosovo and Iraq
(2020-09-01)This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Britain and the World. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/brw.2020.0357. -
‘L'île des bannis’: Jersey, Britain and the French Emigration 1789–1815
The case of the Channel Island of Jersey is an important yet understudied part of the British Empire’s response to the French Emigration 1789-1815. During its high point in 1792-93, the émigré population in and around ... -
The action of the imagination
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Religion, scepticism and John Gregory’s therapeutic science of human nature
This article recovers the discussion of the relationship between religion, human nature and happiness in the Scottish Enlightenment physician John Gregory’s (1724–1773) A Comparative View of Human Nature (1765). Through ... -
James Beattie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the character of Common Sense philosophy
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, James Beattie (1735–1803) was one of the most prominent literary figures of late eighteenth-century Britain. His major works, An Essay on the Nature and ...