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  • LETTERS OF SIR ROBERT MORAY TO THE EARL OF KINCARDINE, 1657–73
    DAVID STEVENSON
    Sir Robert Moray (1608-1673) was one of the most active of the twelve founding members of the Royal Society, and as a close friend of King Charles, was a key figure in obtaining the royal patronage that was crucial to its status and growth. Whilst not an active or original researcher, Moray's role as enthusiastic and widely read participant in, and inspirer of, the Society's ac...

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  • PUBLIC INDECENCY IN ENGLAND 1857-1960
    DAVID COX / KIM STEVENSON / CANDIDA HARRIS / JUDITH ROWBOTHAM
    Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the use of a somewhat nebulous concept of ‘indecency’. Remarkably however, public indecency remains a much under-researched aspect of English legal, social and criminal justice history. Covering a period...

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  • THE SCOTTISH REVOLUTION 1637-44
    DAVID STEVENSON
    In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of power to London which had followed the 1603 Union of the Crowns. The Covenanters fought for a Scottish parliament free from royal control as well as for a Presbyterian Church. Their success was st...

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  • REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN SCOTLAND, 1644-51
    DAVID STEVENSON
    In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil war he was fighting with the English parliament. It was a daring move but the Covenanters believed it a necessary for defensive rea...

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