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Citation
Mann A (2022) Government, Representation and the Privy Council in Pre-modern Scotland’. 72th Conference of International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, Athens, Greece, 20.10.2021-23.10.2021.
Abstract
In 2020 the universities of Stirling and Dundee in Scotland were the recipients of a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant to study the Scottish Privy Council in the period 1689 to 1708. The project aims to explore the records of this period with a view to creating a wide range of published outputs in social, economic, and political spheres and also to transcribe and display in an online platform the main records of the Council for use by historians and the general public in an important initiative in digital humanities. This article will review the significance of the Scottish Privy Council as an executive authority, consider certain unique and universal qualities within a wider European context, and also outline the main aims of the project, which is due to conclude, in spite of the simultaneous international pandemic, in 2024.
Keywords
Scotland, Privy Council, Government, Representation, Early Modern
| Status | Published |
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| Funders | |
| Publication date | 31/12/2022 |
| Publication date online | 31/12/2022 |
| Publisher | ETP Books/ICHRPI |
| Place of publication | Athens |
| ISBN | ISBN: 978-618-5329-99-0 |
| Conference | 72th Conference of International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions |
| Conference location | Athens, Greece |
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