Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to
serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this …

On a stormy night in 1286, a man fell off his horse and broke his neck, setting two kingdoms
on a 300-year course of war. Edward I seized the opportunity to pursue English claims to …

The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an
exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local …

This thesis is the first attempt to provide an assessment of Scottish-Jacobean foreign
relations within a European context in the years before 1603. Moreover, it represents the …

While very prominent in the contemporary world, anxiety about the potentially negative
impact that immigrants might have on their host communities has deep historical roots. In a …

This thesis examines the contribution of James Scott, British country trader in the late
eighteenth century, who alongside Francis Light played a major role in the establishment of …

Eric Hobsbawm's thesis of 'social banditry'has stimulated a great deal of discussion about
the nature of bandit activity. This discussion has shed much light not just upon banditry as a …

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend
the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The …

Piracy is an understudied aspect of Scottish history, most often being analysed through the
prism of governments and state institutions. Maritime historians of Scotland have largely …

Warfare has long been associated with Scottish Highlanders and Islanders, especially in the
period known in Gaelic tradition as 'Linn nan Creach'(the 'Age of Forays'), which followed the …