Bob Harris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3766150 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bob Harris |
| NOMBRES | Bob |
| APELLIDO | Harris |
| FIRMA | HARRIS B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5208-4464 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Gambling Century
The Post Office and the Making of North Britain, c . 1750– c . 1840
While the importance of closer, wider communications to Scotland and Scots adaptation to life within the Union, and the development of Britishness, has been commonly acknowledged, the role of the Post Office within these processes has never been systematically examined. This article charts the increasingly rapid development of postal services within Scotland and linking Scotland to London and the rest of England and Wales from the mid eighteenth …
Conspiracy on Cato Street
Journal Article Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, by Vic Gatrell Get access Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, by Vic Gatrell(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022; pp. 451. £25). Bob Harris Bob Harris Worcester College, Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Re…
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
The 1782 Gaming Bill and Lottery Regulation Acts (1782 and 1787)
This article brings forward new evidence regarding the circumstances surrounding the origins and authorship of the Gaming Bill of 1782, which was designed to suppress the roulette‐type game of ‘Even and Odd’. Hitherto, this Bill has presented something of a puzzle, not only in terms of why it was proposed, but its strange fate; it was never signed into law. The Gaming Bill is viewed alongside a parallel series of parliamentary measures from the 1…
Sarah Kinkel. Disciplining the Empire
Sarah Kinkel’s ambitious first book, Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy, develops a series of important arguments about the rise of the British navy in the eighteenth century as a militarily effective, increasingly professionalized force. The significance of this transformation in naval power and capacity has long been recognized and well described by historians. It has also been variously explained. K…
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions which continue to exert a firm grip on public opinion. Especially in a post-devolution era, Scottish history and Scotland deserve better than this. Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 is certai…
Scotland
Scotland
Lottery Adventuring in Britain, c.1710–1760
The state lottery in eighteenth-century Britain was mostly a striking success, bringing in ready money to the Treasury, supporting public borrowing, and rapidly attracting a wide spectrum of investors—or ‘adventurers’, as they were known. This article explores the reasons behind this success, but also seeks to understand the character and nature of lottery adventuring. To this end, it exploits various pieces of data about lottery ticket purchaser…
Bannockburn 1314–2014
This volume, edited by Michael Penman, comprises a series of papers originally prepared for a conference held to coincide with the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn: the conference aimed to examine not just the battle and controversies which have surrounded its study and interpretation, but also the role which it has played in Scottish life and memory down to the present day. Inevitably perhaps, in a book of this kind, the contributi…
Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792—1802, by Atle L. Wold
This book, by Atle L. Wold, derives from his 2003 Ph.D. thesis, and is the latest volume in the well-regarded Scottish Historical Review monographs series. Its underlying theme and findings will be familiar to most readers—that Scotland was basically a strongly loyal province of Great Britain in the 1790s—although it contains several interesting refinements on this view. Of course, the key question concerns the nature, limits, and social and poli…
Scots burghs, ‘privilege’ and the Court of Session in the eighteenth century
A striking feature of the history of the Scots burgh in this period, and of bodies within it, was their readiness to resort to legal redress in the Court of Session, Scotland's leading civil court. The law was a regular and often intrusive presence in burgh life, a means by which burghs, guildries and trades incorporations defended their privileges. This article will explore this propensity in relation to what it can tell us both about urban iden…
A Higher World
The best general books on any historical subject are driven either by a distinctive or new agenda or perspective, insights derived from new archival work or some broader synthetic ambition. In so far as there is a distinctive intellectual agenda behind Michael Fry’s latest book, it is a frustratingly sparse one. What it amounts to is this: by adopting a ‘socio-economic approach’, historians have (apparently) ‘distorted’ the history of eighteenth-…
The Beau Monde, by Hannah Greig
To understand best how Hannah Greig has conceived of this book you need to read very carefully several of the lengthier, discursive endnotes, especially note 53 (pp. 267–8). There she suggests that the ‘configuration of elite status’, compared with the ‘vast literature tackling other social groups’, has been ‘rather neglected’. She has in mind here the middling ranks, whose fortunes and identities have been subject to minute, and sometimes rather…
Reforming Ideas in Britain
Journal Article Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815, by Mark Philp Get access Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815, by Mark Philp (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. 319. £65). Bob Harris Bob Harris Worcester College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical …
The Scottish Question, by James Mitchell
T.C. Smout once wrote that the shadow cast by the Union of 1707 over Scottish history, both backwards and forwards, was a very long one indeed. Whether the Scottish referendum of 18 September 2014 will have a similar impact is one of the questions that James Mitchell explores in his latest book. The final chapter is prospective, and evidently publisher and author view the book mainly as a contribution to a better understanding of the contexts for…
Landowners and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
This paper challenges the idea that eighteenth-century Scotland was simply, as T. C. Smout once described it, ‘a landowners' world’. It does so by examining the relationships between landowners and a sample of medium-sized and smaller burghs. To some extent, the case made here – that historians have by and large not properly appreciated the degree of independence and influence of the burghs – is suggestive. Partly, it derives from a particular vi…
Remaking the British Atlantic
A major theme of Peter Marshall’s latest book is the degree to which a ‘British Atlantic world’, which had come into being in the decades preceding the War of American Independence, survived that war and the granting of American independence. It is a story of persistence and continuities, and, in many ways, of the curious unimportance of politics. Rather, its rhythms and dynamics were derived from flows of goods and people, the cumulative effects…
The Two Unions
In this lucid, powerfully argued and often rather witty book, Alvin Jackson sets out to compare systematically the genesis, complex histories, and contrasting fortunes of the Anglo-Scottish and Anglo-Irish unions. In some ways, this seems an obvious route to take. The history of Ireland, Scotland and union is, as Jackson emphasises, a deeply entangled one, certainly since 1706 and in fact for much longer than that. Shared or intertwined experienc…
Gordon Pentland. The Spirit of the Union
There has long been a tendency to write off the so-called radical rising of 1820 as a minor episode in the history of Scottish popular politics, and it is passed over entirely in several modern textbooks on British history. There is no good reason for this other than the lack of a systematic, scholarly examination of the events and their background. Until now, the only sustained treatment has been Peter Berresford Ellis and Seumas Mac a'Ghobhainn…
The Enlightenment, Towns and Urban Society in Scotland, c.1760-1820
Based on analysis of a sample of around twenty towns of different size and character, and distributed across the country, this article examines the role and place of enlightenment in the provincial Scottish town during the later Georgian period. In so doing, it questions a series of assumptions commonly made in recent writing about Georgian towns in Britain about an almost symbiotic relationship between commerce, enlightenment, and politeness. Ho…
The relationship between land use and groundwater resources and quality
Science-driven integrated river basin management
The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) represents a new approach to the management of water across Europe. As part of the implementation of the WFD, integrated, catchment-scale plans for the protection and restoration of aquatic ecosystems must be developed. These plans need to be supported by new science, focused on understanding the general modes of behaviour of complex aquatic ecosystems, and the fundamental principles that govern …
Cultural Change in Provincial Scottish Towns, C. 1700–1820
In the decades which immediately followed the union of 1707, most Scottish towns saw limited economic and cultural change. The middle of the eighteenth century, however, marked the beginnings of a new provincial urban dynamism in Scotland, which, from the 1780s or so onwards, was accompanied by far-reaching and rapid cultural change. This article seeks first to establish the scope, nature, and geography of this cultural transformation before disc…
Patriotic commerce and national revival
To Solemnize His Majesty's Birthday’
The importance of loyalism or loyal feelings in George II's Scotland has too often been passed over or ignored by historians, leading, in some important recent studies of Scottish Jacobitism, to a distorted view of patterns of political allegiance in Scotland in this period. This article explores a crucial focus and manifestation of loyal sentiment in Scotland during this period: celebration of the monarch's birthday. The special nature of this o…
Landowners and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
This paper challenges the idea that eighteenth-century Scotland was simply, as T. C. Smout once described it, ‘a landowners' world’. It does so by examining the relationships between landowners and a sample of medium-sized and smaller burghs. To some extent, the case made here – that historians have by and large not properly appreciated the degree of independence and influence of the burghs – is suggestive. Partly, it derives from a particular vi…
The Enlightenment, Towns and Urban Society in Scotland, c.1760-1820
Based on analysis of a sample of around twenty towns of different size and character, and distributed across the country, this article examines the role and place of enlightenment in the provincial Scottish town during the later Georgian period. In so doing, it questions a series of assumptions commonly made in recent writing about Georgian towns in Britain about an almost symbiotic relationship between commerce, enlightenment, and politeness. Ho…
Towns, improvement and cultural change in Georgian Scotland
This article uses the concept of ‘improvement’ to examine the experiences of five burghs in Angus – Dundee, Montrose, Forfar, Brechin and Arbroath – in the later Georgian era. Designed as a contribution to British history in a comparative sense, and using the five burghs as case studies, it seeks to identity distinctively Scottish, as well as common, British elements in Scottish urbanization during a crucial phase in its development. Existing stu…
Scotland's Newspapers, the French Revolution and Domestic Radicalism (c.1789–1794)
This paper examines responses in the Scottish newspaper press to the French Revolution and the associated rise of domestic radicalism. The development of the press in Scotland still awaits its modern historian, and this paper furnishes a picture of it in a crucial phase in its growth. However, the main emphasis is on how Scotland's newspapers ‘represented’ the French Revolution as its character changed between 1789 and the advent of the Terror. I…
The Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union, 1707 in 2007
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Scotland's Herring Fisheries and the Prosperity of the Nation, c.1660–1760
The 'piscatorial optimists' were a small, but vocal and occasionally influ ential voice in debates about economic development and prospects in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Scotland.1 They repeatedly portrayed the fisheries of which the herring fisheries were by some considerable margin the most important in terms of exports by value as, potentially, the source of a prosperous, secure future for the nation.2 'The Fishing of this natione', th…
The London Evening Post and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Journal Article The London Evening Post and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Politics Get access BOB HARRIS BOB HARRIS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1132–1156, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1132 Published: 01 November 1995
Scots burghs, ‘privilege’ and the Court of Session in the eighteenth century
A striking feature of the history of the Scots burgh in this period, and of bodies within it, was their readiness to resort to legal redress in the Court of Session, Scotland's leading civil court. The law was a regular and often intrusive presence in burgh life, a means by which burghs, guildries and trades incorporations defended their privileges. This article will explore this propensity in relation to what it can tell us both about urban iden…
"Historians, Public Opinion, and the "Public Sphere
American Idols
“AMERICAN IDOLS”: EMPIRE, WAR AND THE MIDDLING RANKS IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Get access Bob Harris Bob Harris University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 150, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 111–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/150.1.111 Published: 01 February 1996
England's Provincial Newspapers and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–1746
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access BOB HARRIS BOB HARRIS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.203 Published: 01 February 1995
England's Provincial Newspapers and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–1746
The London Evening Post and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Journal Article The London Evening Post and Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Politics Get access BOB HARRIS BOB HARRIS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1132–1156, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1132 Published: 01 November 1995
A Great Palladium of our Liberties
Journal Article ‘A Great Palladium of our Liberties’: the British Press and the ’Forty-Five Get access BOB HARRIS BOB HARRIS University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 68, Issue 165, February 1995, Pages 67–87, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1995.tb01270.x Published: 12 October 2007
American Idols
“AMERICAN IDOLS”: EMPIRE, WAR AND THE MIDDLING RANKS IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Get access Bob Harris Bob Harris University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 150, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 111–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/150.1.111 Published: 01 February 1996
"Historians, Public Opinion, and the "Public Sphere
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue , Series I and II
To Solemnize His Majesty's Birthday’
The importance of loyalism or loyal feelings in George II's Scotland has too often been passed over or ignored by historians, leading, in some important recent studies of Scottish Jacobitism, to a distorted view of patterns of political allegiance in Scotland in this period. This article explores a crucial focus and manifestation of loyal sentiment in Scotland during this period: celebration of the monarch's birthday. The special nature of this o…
The Unclear Group
This article is a response to Paul Brewer's article "The Group in the Individual: Bion's Group Psychology and the Kleinian Development of the Individual" (Group Analysis, 31, 473-483). Harris argues that Brewer's attempt to integrate Bion's theory of group processes with Kleinian developmental theory is problematic. He contends that Brewer's interpretation of Bion's concept of the "group mentality" is unclear and potentially misrepresents Bion's …
Shorter notice. Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820. WA Speck
Journal Article Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Ideology, Politics and Culture, 1680-1820. WA Speck Get access B Harris B Harris University of Dundee, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1328–1329, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1328 Published: 01 November 1999
Shorter notice. The Hugenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714. Laurence Huey Boles
Journal Article Shorter notice. The Hugenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714. Laurence Huey Boles Get access B Harris B Harris University of Dundee, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 458, September 1999, Pages 991–992, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.458.991 Published: 01 September 1999
Shorter notice. Illusory Consensus. Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole… Pettit
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Shorter notice. Britannia's Glories
Journal Article Britannia's Glories: the Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. P Woodfine Get access B Harris B Harris University of Dundee, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1322 Published: 01 November 1999
Patriotic commerce and national revival
Murdoch, British History, 1660–1832
Scotland's Herring Fisheries and the Prosperity of the Nation, c.1660–1760
The 'piscatorial optimists' were a small, but vocal and occasionally influ ential voice in debates about economic development and prospects in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Scotland.1 They repeatedly portrayed the fisheries of which the herring fisheries were by some considerable margin the most important in terms of exports by value as, potentially, the source of a prosperous, secure future for the nation.2 'The Fishing of this natione', th…
Newspapers, Politics and English Society, 1695-1855 Hannah Barker
Journal Article Newspapers, Politics and English Society, 1695–1855 Hannah Barker Get access Bob Harris Bob Harris University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1318–1319, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1318 Published: 01 November 2000
Clark, English Society, 1660–1832
Smyth, Making of the United Kingdom
H. Berry, Gender, society and print culture in late-Stuart England
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Scotland's Newspapers, the French Revolution and Domestic Radicalism (c.1789–1794)
This paper examines responses in the Scottish newspaper press to the French Revolution and the associated rise of domestic radicalism. The development of the press in Scotland still awaits its modern historian, and this paper furnishes a picture of it in a crucial phase in its growth. However, the main emphasis is on how Scotland's newspapers ‘represented’ the French Revolution as its character changed between 1789 and the advent of the Terror. I…
Towns, improvement and cultural change in Georgian Scotland
This article uses the concept of ‘improvement’ to examine the experiences of five burghs in Angus – Dundee, Montrose, Forfar, Brechin and Arbroath – in the later Georgian era. Designed as a contribution to British history in a comparative sense, and using the five burghs as case studies, it seeks to identity distinctively Scottish, as well as common, British elements in Scottish urbanization during a crucial phase in its development. Existing stu…
Science-driven integrated river basin management
The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) represents a new approach to the management of water across Europe. As part of the implementation of the WFD, integrated, catchment-scale plans for the protection and restoration of aquatic ecosystems must be developed. These plans need to be supported by new science, focused on understanding the general modes of behaviour of complex aquatic ecosystems, and the fundamental principles that govern …
Moral Capital
AT the heart of this compelling volume are two questions often quickly passed over in accounts of the rise of abolitionism in Britain: how to account for the precise timing of the movement's emergence (in 1787); and why abolition of the slave trade as opposed to emancipation or, short of that, other ways to ameliorate the conditions of chattel slaves. What emerges is a multifaceted exploration of abolitionism's origins, one which stresses above a…
Popular politics in Angus and Perthshire in the seventeen-nineties
Journal Article Popular politics in Angus and Perthshire in the seventeen-nineties Get access Bob Harris Bob Harris Worcester College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 80, Issue 210, November 2007, Pages 518–544, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00407.x Published: 06 December 2006
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