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Introduction
A revised edition of A Regimental History of the Scottish Covenanting Armies, 1639-1651.
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August 1987 - August 2017
Naval History and Heritage Command
Position
- Managing Director
Description
- Establish and budget exhibit program. Manage and curate exhibits. Research and write publications text. Produce VIP events. Collections management. Answer inquiries from other professionals and the public. Write grants. Facilities Manager. Credit Cardholder and budget analyst.
February 1984 - February 1987
Historic Environment Scotland
Position
- Contractor
Description
- Researched and prepared exhibition and reference materials; edited manuscripts. Historian/Designer Holyrood Park exhibit. Produced Duff House transcript (called "a model of perfection" by Ian Gow) and catalogued the Montcoffer Papers (dukes/earls of Fife).
October 1983 - February 1984
Pendle Heritage Centre
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- Supervisor/Historian
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- In charge of a team of twenty workers and responsible for producing exhibitions and other projects. Chairman Archives committee and member Management Committee.
Education
October 1977 - March 1983
September 1976 - June 1977
October 1975 - May 1977
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Publications (51)
Cover image for reference book on Scottish Royalist units, 1639-1655
For centuries Pluscarden's [Royalist] Rising in 1649 has received condemnation as an inevitable failure. The article counters that interpretation by showing its resilience, broadening appeal and continental connections. Pluscarden's decision to make a nephew the commander of the force at Balvenie proved a fatal mistake. The Kirk Party's regime deci...
Review of William S. Brockington's edition of Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys.
Presbyterianism had a special role in preserving the separateness of the 17th century Scottish settlers in Ulster. Initially, the Church of Ireland hierarchy favored planting any British Protestant minister in the province. The arrival of Wentworth and Laudianism in Ireland altered that as did the Irish Rebellion of October 1641. From 1642-48 Presb...
The premise of the book is simple -- Scots gained military experience in the Thirty Years' War and returned to use it in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
The book covers a glorious tactical victory that was a great strategic defeat. The review indicates that some senior leaders can only see the trees and not the forest.
The French government, having secured loans for an invasion of Britain, moved forward with the operation. The British blockade and the weather prevented it from being launched. The French had amassed a threatening fleet, which Hawke's fleet destroyed in multiple acts of superb seamanship.
Review of a regimental history: served on military campaigns in North America, then sustained British imperial control by serving in garrisons, which expanded British economic ties with the native population.
Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren Wagar
Klieforth and Munro set out with an overly ambitious agenda—to prove that Scotland is the source of human rights and democracy. They have produced a work in three parts supported by a substantial chronology. Part one (chapters one to twenty) establishes the Celts and Scots before 1776 as the origins of the concepts of human liberty, freedom and dem...
If military accounts of the 1715 Jacobite rising are scarce compared with those of 1745, then analysis of the aftermath of the former is even more minimal. That was the case until the appearance of Sankey's volume, which reveals not only what happened, but also indicates how the treatment of Jacobite rebels has implications for the broader developm...
The Journal of Military History 69.2 (2005) 543-545
Glozier has produced an exemplary work based on meticulous research covering the intersections of military, diplomatic, and political history in Western Europe between 1660 and 1691. Taking one colonel, George Douglas (later 1st earl of Dumbarton), and his regiment as the focus, the author tells a...
Review analyzes a major, but little recognized, alliance of early modern Europe -- that between Sweden and Scotland. The coalition provided mutually beneficial support in periods of extreme crisis.
The Journal of Military History 68.4 (2004) 1248-1250
Alexis Grosjean has produced a magisterial piece transforming the previous analysis of Scots in military service to Sweden in the 1563-1654 period. Her research, spread throughout archives across northern Europe, indicates that the Scottish involvement in the Swedish armed forces lasted longer,...
Preface Training and Manning the Maritime Community Authority, Discipline, and the Maritime Social Order Maritime Subculture, Labor Relations, and the Role of Custom Victualling, Morbidity, Mortality, and Health Care Life Ashore Conclusion Bibliography
Cheryl A. Fury. Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of the Elizabethan Seamen, 1580–1603. (Contributions in Military Studies, Number 214.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 293. $64.95. ISBN 0-313-31948-0. - Volume 35 Issue 2 - Edward M. Furgol
BrockingtonWilliam S.Jr., ed. Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys. (Praeger Series in War Studies.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. 1999. Pp. xlix, 429. $75.00. ISBN 0-275-96267-9. - Volume 32 Issue 2 - Edward M. Furgol
Review of a monograph on James V of Scotland.
Review of Cameron's posthumously published biography of James V of Scotland
All the units fielded by the Covenanters between 1639 and 1651, including retinues and militia.
In 1986-87 I updated the precise itinerary of Mary Queen of Scots. The article not only includes new places, but also shows the political impact of the queen's travels. A number of her mother/the regent's opponents became allies of Mary during her personal reign and ensuing civil war.
Questions
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My former intern Dr. Chelsi Slotten is running for the position of trustee in the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Please vote for her. Thank you.
Dr. Andrew Lind (University of the Highlands and Islands) and I (Montgomery College, Maryland) are writing a book on Scottish Royalist Military Units, 1639-54. Scottish Highland clans raised many of the units. Does anyone have suggestions for primary and secondary sources? Thank you very much.
I am rewriting the introduction to my book on Scottish Covenanting regiments. Swedish Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, 1st earl of Leven, in a pamphlet printed in London in 1642, calls for deploying infantry in 8 ranks. Swedish Colonel Robert Monro in his earlier book His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys states one should deploy infantry in 6 ranks. Which was the Swedish practice and why do they disagree?
