Elaine Mcfarland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Mcfarland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcfarland |
| SIGNATURE | MCFARLAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
All Ranks Behaved Splendidly
Scottish military units were strongly represented among the outpouring of unit histories that followed the Great War. A neglected genre, these works stand as cultural as well as military landmarks, expressing the private grief, but also striving to convey the importance and validity of the recent experience of war. The discussion that follows begins by explaining the aims and motivations behind Scottish unit histories. It then considers the mecha…
Christ's Soldier, Scotland's Hero
Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was quickly elevated to the status of imperial hero following his death at the battle of Magersfontein in 1899. His case throws light on mechanics of military celebrity in the popular culture of high imperialism, with a particular focus on its Scottish dimension. Indeed, the defence of his leadership was also a vital component in vindicating Scotland's martial reputation after the initial reversals of the Sou…
Discourses surrounding British widows of the First World War, by Angela Smith
Building the Promised Land
The main theme of this article is the interaction between physical and spiritual reconstruction in the post-war decades. During this period, Scotland witnessed a massive public housing drive, resulting in large-scale population movement. The Church of Scotland viewed this as both a challenge to its role as a national church and as an opportunity for church renewal. Part of a much larger religious boom in Western Europe and North America, the Chur…
Commemoration of the South African War in Scotland, 1900–10
This article focuses on Scotland's engagement with the imperial project through the medium of its commemoration of the second South African War. It focuses on both the process of commemoration and its outputs. These included a rich and varied range of military and civic memorials, some traditionally monumental, others with a more functional intent, including educational and welfare projects. The collective memory of the war which they articulated…
Out in the Open in a Threatening World”
By combining archival research with the oral testimony of ex-industrial chaplains – and others with direct experience of industrial mission – this article explores a neglected dimension of religious outreach, and attempts to provide a nuanced interpretation of the interrelationship between de-industrialization and secularization in post-1960 Britain. By 1965, over 100 industrial chaplains operated throughout industrial Scotland across a range of …
The Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954
This article analyses the origins, aims and impact of the Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954. The case study not only extends our understanding of Christianity's response to the Cold War, but also helps underline organised religion's complex engagement with modern secular society, which communism was believed to represent in an extreme form. Rather than an outburst of crude McCarthyism, the Commission's work actually …
The Making of an Irishman
John Ferguson dominated Irish Home Rule politics in Scotland for over 30 years. As an Irish Protestant leading a predominantly Catholic nationalist movement, the construction of his personal identity was an active and continuous process, paralleling the attempts of the Irish migrant community to claim its own stake in Scottish society and politics. This essay examines some of the main forces shaping Ferguson's career, considering not only his imm…
Faith in the factory
This article interprets the Church of Scotland's post-war industrial mission project as a deliberate attempt to relate constructively with the changing social world. The analysis places this case study in the wider context of industrial mission experiments in France, England and Germany. Although the scheme was less radical than its European counterparts, this article suggests that it was more widely represented in Scottish workplaces and better …
Empire-Enlarging Genius’
The article examines Scotland’s engagement with the Boer War, through the medium of Imperial Yeomanry detachments raised locally between 1900 and 1902. Drawing partly on data from surviving attestation forms, a picture is built up of the recruitment profiles, enlistment motivations, and war experiences of these ‘soldier-citizens’. This volunteering phenomenon is placed in the context of the Scottish military tradition and popular empire loyalty. …
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia
Journal Article Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business Get access Pat Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. Pp. 410. $39.95. ISBN 0868409057. Elaine W. McFarland Elaine W. McFarland 1Glasgow Caledonian [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
Researching Death, Mourning and Commemoration in Modern Scotland
Looks at methods of researching death, mourning and commemoration in Scotland
How the Irish Paid Their Debt’
This article looks at the history of the Irish Catholic community in Scotland during August 1914-July 1915, in relation to voluntary enlistment
A Reality and Yet Impalpable
This prediction of a nation mesmerised by the threat of Fenianism was rapidly fulfilled. Like the rest of mainland Britain, Scotland was swept by Fenian Fever, a panic which reached its height at the end of 1867. In dozens of Scottish cities and towns from Stromness to Berwick, reports of nocturnal drilling and imminent attack swamped local officials and filled newspaper columns. Even the normally sedate Scotsman had its warm outflow of Christmas…
Bosnian refugees in Glasgow
Clyde opinion on an old controversy
Indian and Chinese seafarers hold an important place in the history of the migration of people of Asian origin to Scotland. As transient labour with a disadvantaged politico-legal status, these seafarers constituted a highly exploitable workforce and their appearance in Glasgow from the late 1850s bears testimony to the city's close links to the colonial system. Responses to the group shifted in the early-twentieth century as missionizing impulse…
Refugees in Strathclyde
Ethnic minority needs and service delivery
The article discusses a research survey carried out in an inner‐city area of Glasgow. The survey had a qualitative focus, with an attempt to establish ethnic minority needs in the fields of childcare services, care of the elderly, and advice and information. A low level of expectation and awareness of services was uncovered. This was found to reflect both the generally inadequate level of existing provision, and a lack of success on the part of s…
Clyde opinion on an old controversy
Indian and Chinese seafarers hold an important place in the history of the migration of people of Asian origin to Scotland. As transient labour with a disadvantaged politico-legal status, these seafarers constituted a highly exploitable workforce and their appearance in Glasgow from the late 1850s bears testimony to the city's close links to the colonial system. Responses to the group shifted in the early-twentieth century as missionizing impulse…
Out in the Open in a Threatening World”
By combining archival research with the oral testimony of ex-industrial chaplains – and others with direct experience of industrial mission – this article explores a neglected dimension of religious outreach, and attempts to provide a nuanced interpretation of the interrelationship between de-industrialization and secularization in post-1960 Britain. By 1965, over 100 industrial chaplains operated throughout industrial Scotland across a range of …
The Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954
This article analyses the origins, aims and impact of the Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954. The case study not only extends our understanding of Christianity's response to the Cold War, but also helps underline organised religion's complex engagement with modern secular society, which communism was believed to represent in an extreme form. Rather than an outburst of crude McCarthyism, the Commission's work actually …
Faith in the factory
This article interprets the Church of Scotland's post-war industrial mission project as a deliberate attempt to relate constructively with the changing social world. The analysis places this case study in the wider context of industrial mission experiments in France, England and Germany. Although the scheme was less radical than its European counterparts, this article suggests that it was more widely represented in Scottish workplaces and better …
A Reality and Yet Impalpable
This prediction of a nation mesmerised by the threat of Fenianism was rapidly fulfilled. Like the rest of mainland Britain, Scotland was swept by Fenian Fever, a panic which reached its height at the end of 1867. In dozens of Scottish cities and towns from Stromness to Berwick, reports of nocturnal drilling and imminent attack swamped local officials and filled newspaper columns. Even the normally sedate Scotsman had its warm outflow of Christmas…
Commemoration of the South African War in Scotland, 1900–10
This article focuses on Scotland's engagement with the imperial project through the medium of its commemoration of the second South African War. It focuses on both the process of commemoration and its outputs. These included a rich and varied range of military and civic memorials, some traditionally monumental, others with a more functional intent, including educational and welfare projects. The collective memory of the war which they articulated…
Bosnian refugees in Glasgow
Refugees in Strathclyde
Ethnic minority needs and service delivery
The article discusses a research survey carried out in an inner‐city area of Glasgow. The survey had a qualitative focus, with an attempt to establish ethnic minority needs in the fields of childcare services, care of the elderly, and advice and information. A low level of expectation and awareness of services was uncovered. This was found to reflect both the generally inadequate level of existing provision, and a lack of success on the part of s…
Clyde opinion on an old controversy
Indian and Chinese seafarers hold an important place in the history of the migration of people of Asian origin to Scotland. As transient labour with a disadvantaged politico-legal status, these seafarers constituted a highly exploitable workforce and their appearance in Glasgow from the late 1850s bears testimony to the city's close links to the colonial system. Responses to the group shifted in the early-twentieth century as missionizing impulse…
Bosnian refugees in Glasgow
A Reality and Yet Impalpable
This prediction of a nation mesmerised by the threat of Fenianism was rapidly fulfilled. Like the rest of mainland Britain, Scotland was swept by Fenian Fever, a panic which reached its height at the end of 1867. In dozens of Scottish cities and towns from Stromness to Berwick, reports of nocturnal drilling and imminent attack swamped local officials and filled newspaper columns. Even the normally sedate Scotsman had its warm outflow of Christmas…
How the Irish Paid Their Debt’
This article looks at the history of the Irish Catholic community in Scotland during August 1914-July 1915, in relation to voluntary enlistment
Researching Death, Mourning and Commemoration in Modern Scotland
Looks at methods of researching death, mourning and commemoration in Scotland
Empire-Enlarging Genius’
The article examines Scotland’s engagement with the Boer War, through the medium of Imperial Yeomanry detachments raised locally between 1900 and 1902. Drawing partly on data from surviving attestation forms, a picture is built up of the recruitment profiles, enlistment motivations, and war experiences of these ‘soldier-citizens’. This volunteering phenomenon is placed in the context of the Scottish military tradition and popular empire loyalty. …
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia
Journal Article Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business Get access Pat Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. Pp. 410. $39.95. ISBN 0868409057. Elaine W. McFarland Elaine W. McFarland 1Glasgow Caledonian [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
The Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954
This article analyses the origins, aims and impact of the Church of Scotland's Special Commission on Communism, 1949–1954. The case study not only extends our understanding of Christianity's response to the Cold War, but also helps underline organised religion's complex engagement with modern secular society, which communism was believed to represent in an extreme form. Rather than an outburst of crude McCarthyism, the Commission's work actually …
The Making of an Irishman
John Ferguson dominated Irish Home Rule politics in Scotland for over 30 years. As an Irish Protestant leading a predominantly Catholic nationalist movement, the construction of his personal identity was an active and continuous process, paralleling the attempts of the Irish migrant community to claim its own stake in Scottish society and politics. This essay examines some of the main forces shaping Ferguson's career, considering not only his imm…
Faith in the factory
This article interprets the Church of Scotland's post-war industrial mission project as a deliberate attempt to relate constructively with the changing social world. The analysis places this case study in the wider context of industrial mission experiments in France, England and Germany. Although the scheme was less radical than its European counterparts, this article suggests that it was more widely represented in Scottish workplaces and better …
Commemoration of the South African War in Scotland, 1900–10
This article focuses on Scotland's engagement with the imperial project through the medium of its commemoration of the second South African War. It focuses on both the process of commemoration and its outputs. These included a rich and varied range of military and civic memorials, some traditionally monumental, others with a more functional intent, including educational and welfare projects. The collective memory of the war which they articulated…
Out in the Open in a Threatening World”
By combining archival research with the oral testimony of ex-industrial chaplains – and others with direct experience of industrial mission – this article explores a neglected dimension of religious outreach, and attempts to provide a nuanced interpretation of the interrelationship between de-industrialization and secularization in post-1960 Britain. By 1965, over 100 industrial chaplains operated throughout industrial Scotland across a range of …
Building the Promised Land
The main theme of this article is the interaction between physical and spiritual reconstruction in the post-war decades. During this period, Scotland witnessed a massive public housing drive, resulting in large-scale population movement. The Church of Scotland viewed this as both a challenge to its role as a national church and as an opportunity for church renewal. Part of a much larger religious boom in Western Europe and North America, the Chur…
Discourses surrounding British widows of the First World War, by Angela Smith
Christ's Soldier, Scotland's Hero
Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was quickly elevated to the status of imperial hero following his death at the battle of Magersfontein in 1899. His case throws light on mechanics of military celebrity in the popular culture of high imperialism, with a particular focus on its Scottish dimension. Indeed, the defence of his leadership was also a vital component in vindicating Scotland's martial reputation after the initial reversals of the Sou…
All Ranks Behaved Splendidly
Scottish military units were strongly represented among the outpouring of unit histories that followed the Great War. A neglected genre, these works stand as cultural as well as military landmarks, expressing the private grief, but also striving to convey the importance and validity of the recent experience of war. The discussion that follows begins by explaining the aims and motivations behind Scottish unit histories. It then considers the mecha…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (9 works) · Irish and British Studies (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)