G Pentland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Pentland |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Pentland |
| SIGNATURE | PENTLAND G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8430-6837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Westminster Politicians and Rectorial Elections in Scotland's Universities, 1820–1920
This article focuses on the relationship of Westminster politicians to rectorial elections at Scottish universities between the first obviously ‘political’ contest at Glasgow in 1820 and Lloyd George’s triumph in Edinburgh in 1920. It argues that the widely reported return of Sir Robert Peel at the University of Glasgow in 1836 underlined the partisan political potential of the elections and established many of the features of the subsequent elec…
Viral Text, Political Disinformation, and Parliamentary Reform in 1830
This article provides a close study of ‘Nice pickings’, a short piece of political disinformation generated within the London radical press. It examines the means and methods by which this became a viral text and reconstructs its pattern of circulation. It argues that, by passing rapidly and widely around a range of different media and audiences, by being susceptible to revamping and adaptation, and by providing a gateway onto a series of powerfu…
An Offence New in Its Kind”: Responses to Assassination Attempts on British Royalty, 1800–1900
Attempted assassinations have only rarely been given sustained and systematic attention by historians. This article focuses on a series of attempts to assassinate members of the British royal family across the nineteenth century. In exploring the responses of political elites and wider publics to these attacks, the author argues for the development of a robust and enduring script with which to navigate physical attacks on the sovereign and his or…
The freethinkers' zetetic society: An Edinburgh radical underworld in the eighteen-twenties
The infidel ‘zetetic’ movement of the eighteen-twenties has been investigated principally as an extension of Richard Carlile's metropolitan campaigns for a free press. This article employs the radical press and print culture of the time alongside legal records relating to the harassment and prosecution of the very first zetetic society to reconstruct the local contexts and controversies from which Edinburgh's infidel movement emerged. It argues t…
Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson
A broad, richly detailed examination of the cultural, political and social history of Britain's long eighteenth centuryFew scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students, f…
Edward Heath, the Declaration of Perth and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, 1966-70
Edward Heath’s ‘Declaration of Perth’ in May 1968 and the work of the Constitutional Committee that followed it committed the Conservative Party to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly in Edinburgh. This apparent new departure has been characterized in two principal ways. First, as a tactical and opportunistic attempt to play the ‘Scottish card’ in the context of declining electoral fortunes north of the border and the threat posed by the Scott…
The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868
Journal Article The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 Get access Gordon Pentland Gordon Pentland University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 542, February 2015, Pages 57–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu335 Published: 21 January 2015
The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884
Now the great Man in the Parliament House is dead, we shall have a big Loaf!” Responses to the Assassination of Spencer Perceval
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The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris
Journal Article The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris Get access The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008; pp. 340. £60). Gordon Pentland Gordon Pentland University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 520, June 2011, Pages 713–714, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer102 Publi…
We Speak for the Ready’: Images of Scots in Political Prints, 1707–1832
The role played by anti-Scottishness in English political culture has been briefly explored by historians, who have focused overwhelmingly on the hostile response to the earl of Bute in the 1760s. This article puts that episode into a longer perspective by looking at the ways in which political prints represented Scots across the long eighteenth century. By examining the antecedents of the Bute episode and the subsequent history of a politicised …
Betrayed by Infamous Spies'? The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820
On 5 September 2001, Gil Paterson, the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member (MSP) for Central Scotland, moved some members’ business in the Scottish parliament: That the Parliament recognises the sacrifice of the three 1820 martyrs, James Wilson from Strathaven and John Baird and Andrew Hardie from Glasgow, who were hanged and beheaded in the 1820 rising which fought for social and economic justice, workers’ rights and an independent Scottish par…
Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution Edited by Michael T. Davis, Iain McCalman and Christina Parolin
The Debate on Scottish Parliamentary Reform, 1830–1832
The voluminous historiography of the‘Great Reform Act’ of 1832 and the more modest historiography of the Reform Act (Scotland) have tended to focus on how far the legislation effected a break with an aristocratic constitution. What this approach does little to illuminate, however, is the extent to which the reform legislation was framed and debated as a renegotiation of the relationship between England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Empire.…
Scotland and the Creation of a National Reform Movement, 1830–1832
The popular movement for parliamentary reform after 1830 managed to sustain its campaign for over eighteen months. The popular movement itself has largely been studied at a local level, and undoubtedly local contexts were influential in conditioning responses to reform. Reformers, however, predominantly represented themselves as patriots involved in a pan-British struggle, and this was a key factor in sustaining the mobilization. This article exp…
Patriotism, Universalism and the Scottish Conventions, 1792–1794
Scottish radicalism in the 1790s was informed by indigenous ideologies and traditions and by the more universalist ideology associated with the American and French revolutions and with the writings of Thomas Paine. Scottish, English and Irish radicals also operated in a British context, and throughout the decade they contested the language of British patriotism with the state and loyalists who sought to represent all radicals as essentially forei…
Patriotism, Universalism and the Scottish Conventions, 1792–1794
Scottish radicalism in the 1790s was informed by indigenous ideologies and traditions and by the more universalist ideology associated with the American and French revolutions and with the writings of Thomas Paine. Scottish, English and Irish radicals also operated in a British context, and throughout the decade they contested the language of British patriotism with the state and loyalists who sought to represent all radicals as essentially forei…
We Speak for the Ready’: Images of Scots in Political Prints, 1707–1832
The role played by anti-Scottishness in English political culture has been briefly explored by historians, who have focused overwhelmingly on the hostile response to the earl of Bute in the 1760s. This article puts that episode into a longer perspective by looking at the ways in which political prints represented Scots across the long eighteenth century. By examining the antecedents of the Bute episode and the subsequent history of a politicised …
The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868
Journal Article The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 Get access Gordon Pentland Gordon Pentland University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 542, February 2015, Pages 57–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu335 Published: 21 January 2015
Edward Heath, the Declaration of Perth and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, 1966-70
Edward Heath’s ‘Declaration of Perth’ in May 1968 and the work of the Constitutional Committee that followed it committed the Conservative Party to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly in Edinburgh. This apparent new departure has been characterized in two principal ways. First, as a tactical and opportunistic attempt to play the ‘Scottish card’ in the context of declining electoral fortunes north of the border and the threat posed by the Scott…
Now the great Man in the Parliament House is dead, we shall have a big Loaf!” Responses to the Assassination of Spencer Perceval
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Scotland and the Creation of a National Reform Movement, 1830–1832
The popular movement for parliamentary reform after 1830 managed to sustain its campaign for over eighteen months. The popular movement itself has largely been studied at a local level, and undoubtedly local contexts were influential in conditioning responses to reform. Reformers, however, predominantly represented themselves as patriots involved in a pan-British struggle, and this was a key factor in sustaining the mobilization. This article exp…
Patriotism, Universalism and the Scottish Conventions, 1792–1794
Scottish radicalism in the 1790s was informed by indigenous ideologies and traditions and by the more universalist ideology associated with the American and French revolutions and with the writings of Thomas Paine. Scottish, English and Irish radicals also operated in a British context, and throughout the decade they contested the language of British patriotism with the state and loyalists who sought to represent all radicals as essentially forei…
Scotland and the Creation of a National Reform Movement, 1830–1832
The popular movement for parliamentary reform after 1830 managed to sustain its campaign for over eighteen months. The popular movement itself has largely been studied at a local level, and undoubtedly local contexts were influential in conditioning responses to reform. Reformers, however, predominantly represented themselves as patriots involved in a pan-British struggle, and this was a key factor in sustaining the mobilization. This article exp…
The Debate on Scottish Parliamentary Reform, 1830–1832
The voluminous historiography of the‘Great Reform Act’ of 1832 and the more modest historiography of the Reform Act (Scotland) have tended to focus on how far the legislation effected a break with an aristocratic constitution. What this approach does little to illuminate, however, is the extent to which the reform legislation was framed and debated as a renegotiation of the relationship between England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Empire.…
Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution Edited by Michael T. Davis, Iain McCalman and Christina Parolin
Betrayed by Infamous Spies'? The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820
On 5 September 2001, Gil Paterson, the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member (MSP) for Central Scotland, moved some members’ business in the Scottish parliament: That the Parliament recognises the sacrifice of the three 1820 martyrs, James Wilson from Strathaven and John Baird and Andrew Hardie from Glasgow, who were hanged and beheaded in the 1820 rising which fought for social and economic justice, workers’ rights and an independent Scottish par…
The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris
Journal Article The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris Get access The Scottish People and the French Revolution, by Bob Harris (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008; pp. 340. £60). Gordon Pentland Gordon Pentland University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 520, June 2011, Pages 713–714, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer102 Publi…
We Speak for the Ready’: Images of Scots in Political Prints, 1707–1832
The role played by anti-Scottishness in English political culture has been briefly explored by historians, who have focused overwhelmingly on the hostile response to the earl of Bute in the 1760s. This article puts that episode into a longer perspective by looking at the ways in which political prints represented Scots across the long eighteenth century. By examining the antecedents of the Bute episode and the subsequent history of a politicised …
The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884
Now the great Man in the Parliament House is dead, we shall have a big Loaf!” Responses to the Assassination of Spencer Perceval
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson
A broad, richly detailed examination of the cultural, political and social history of Britain's long eighteenth centuryFew scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson's students, f…
Edward Heath, the Declaration of Perth and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, 1966-70
Edward Heath’s ‘Declaration of Perth’ in May 1968 and the work of the Constitutional Committee that followed it committed the Conservative Party to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly in Edinburgh. This apparent new departure has been characterized in two principal ways. First, as a tactical and opportunistic attempt to play the ‘Scottish card’ in the context of declining electoral fortunes north of the border and the threat posed by the Scott…
The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868
Journal Article The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868 Get access Gordon Pentland Gordon Pentland University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 542, February 2015, Pages 57–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu335 Published: 21 January 2015
The freethinkers' zetetic society: An Edinburgh radical underworld in the eighteen-twenties
The infidel ‘zetetic’ movement of the eighteen-twenties has been investigated principally as an extension of Richard Carlile's metropolitan campaigns for a free press. This article employs the radical press and print culture of the time alongside legal records relating to the harassment and prosecution of the very first zetetic society to reconstruct the local contexts and controversies from which Edinburgh's infidel movement emerged. It argues t…
An Offence New in Its Kind”: Responses to Assassination Attempts on British Royalty, 1800–1900
Attempted assassinations have only rarely been given sustained and systematic attention by historians. This article focuses on a series of attempts to assassinate members of the British royal family across the nineteenth century. In exploring the responses of political elites and wider publics to these attacks, the author argues for the development of a robust and enduring script with which to navigate physical attacks on the sovereign and his or…
Westminster Politicians and Rectorial Elections in Scotland's Universities, 1820–1920
This article focuses on the relationship of Westminster politicians to rectorial elections at Scottish universities between the first obviously ‘political’ contest at Glasgow in 1820 and Lloyd George’s triumph in Edinburgh in 1920. It argues that the widely reported return of Sir Robert Peel at the University of Glasgow in 1836 underlined the partisan political potential of the elections and established many of the features of the subsequent elec…
Viral Text, Political Disinformation, and Parliamentary Reform in 1830
This article provides a close study of ‘Nice pickings’, a short piece of political disinformation generated within the London radical press. It examines the means and methods by which this became a viral text and reconstructs its pattern of circulation. It argues that, by passing rapidly and widely around a range of different media and audiences, by being susceptible to revamping and adaptation, and by providing a gateway onto a series of powerfu…
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