The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the Scottish elite, having taken advantage of opportunities provided by the 1707 Union with England, was then encouraged to spread eastwards, with the East India Company (EIC) as the vehicle. This progression was initiated in 1725 by a Westminster government headed by Walpole. He used the patronage provided by the monopoly to consolidate Whig political management of Scotland. Ministries, thereafter, also found this system very useful. This explains why there were so many Scots employed by the English EIC and its shipping for most of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth. Their numbers were further boosted, from 1784, by the favours conferred, and the scheming, of Henry Dundas, Viscoun...
The exile and especially the transportation of political radicals in the late eighteenth and early n...
L’élection, en 1976, de la comtesse de Sutherland au poste de présidente honoraire du Royal National...
Né en 1835 dans une famille d’ouvriers agricoles vivant dans un village de la péninsule de Kintyre, ...
Over the years, the Scottish National Party has clearly emphasised the alienness of England’s ethos ...
The need to introduce more transparency in the way devolution is funded in Scotland and Wales is mor...
Robin Jenkins (1912-2005) is one of the most distinguished novelists of post war Britain. In a caree...
The paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel Far Inland (2006), atte...
In the eighteenth century, a prolonged stay in Rome was essential in the career of a painter. In thi...
The politically and culturally diverse north western territories of the Holy Roman Empires so far la...
International audienceFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a renewal of interest ...
International audienceThe paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel F...
From the 1820s onwards, British art critics spoke of a Scottish school of art, which could be identi...
Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en mars 2012: http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/...
After the Union of 1707, many landowners who perceived the need for improvement participated in the ...
À partir du début du xixe siècle, il y eut en Écosse un renouveau d’intérêt pour l’histoire national...
The exile and especially the transportation of political radicals in the late eighteenth and early n...
L’élection, en 1976, de la comtesse de Sutherland au poste de présidente honoraire du Royal National...
Né en 1835 dans une famille d’ouvriers agricoles vivant dans un village de la péninsule de Kintyre, ...
Over the years, the Scottish National Party has clearly emphasised the alienness of England’s ethos ...
The need to introduce more transparency in the way devolution is funded in Scotland and Wales is mor...
Robin Jenkins (1912-2005) is one of the most distinguished novelists of post war Britain. In a caree...
The paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel Far Inland (2006), atte...
In the eighteenth century, a prolonged stay in Rome was essential in the career of a painter. In thi...
The politically and culturally diverse north western territories of the Holy Roman Empires so far la...
International audienceFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a renewal of interest ...
International audienceThe paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel F...
From the 1820s onwards, British art critics spoke of a Scottish school of art, which could be identi...
Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en mars 2012: http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/...
After the Union of 1707, many landowners who perceived the need for improvement participated in the ...
À partir du début du xixe siècle, il y eut en Écosse un renouveau d’intérêt pour l’histoire national...
The exile and especially the transportation of political radicals in the late eighteenth and early n...
L’élection, en 1976, de la comtesse de Sutherland au poste de présidente honoraire du Royal National...
Né en 1835 dans une famille d’ouvriers agricoles vivant dans un village de la péninsule de Kintyre, ...