Richard Finlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Finlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Finlay |
| SIGNATURE | FINLAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0914-1910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience, by Michael Hunter
Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence
For more than a decade now, the issue of Scottish independence has been one of the key features in British politics and has raised questions as to the likely survival of the United Kingdom in the post Brexit era. In Scotland, the SNP has been in government since 2007 and has established a political hegemony that makes it the most successful political party in terms of electoral politics in Europe. Yet, the political philosophy of this movement ha…
Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars, by Iain J.M. Robertson
As a geographically and culturally distinct segment of Scottish society, the Highlands of Scotland have demanded their own special history. Whereas the central belt had industrialised and modernised from the mid-eighteenth century, the Highlands continued a historical trajectory into the modern era that was more in line with that of Ireland than the majority of the British mainland. As a consequence, many of the traditional paradigms of historica…
Housing Wealth Effects: Evidence from an Australian Panel
We explore the positive relationship between house prices and household spending by following a panel of Australian households. No evidence for ‘traditional housing wealth effects' is found, with young homeowners exhibiting the largest wealth effects. Young renters also exhibit a positive consumption response to house prices, although less so than young homeowners. This suggests that increasing house prices raise spending via easing credit constr…
The Making of the Modern Scottish Highlands 1939–1965, by John A. Burnett
The modern history of the Highlands is one of a region achieving a distinctive categorisation within Scotland that requires special attention to be paid to its problems, even though many of the issues associated with population decline and the adaptation of a small-scale rural economy to the modern world are not unique. Indeed, the Scottish Borders experienced a greater rate of population loss in the twentieth century, yet that region does not co…
Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron
Journal Article Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron Get access Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2010; pp. 433. £70; pb. £22.99). Richard J. Finlay Richard J. Finlay University of Strathclyde [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 525, April 2012, Pa…
Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820–1833
Burness, ‘Strange Associations’
Does History Matter? Political Scientists, Welsh and Scottish Devolution
When does history become history? When does it become appropriate to say that a sufficient distance in time has passed to let the historian apply the skills of the trade to best effect? These questions are important because they are central to that border region between history and contemporary studies and the vexed problem of intellectual ownership. The case of Scottish and Welsh devolution is a good case in point. All agree that they were (are)…
New Britain, New Scotland, New History? The Impact of Devolution on the Development of Scottish Historiography
David Hume's comment that 'this is the historical age and this is the historical nation' would appear to have as much resonance now as it did in the eighteenth century. The impact of devolution in Scotland has made Scottish history seem more relevant to its people. The nation, in keeping with its rediscovery of its political self, has embarked on a process of rediscovering its past. TV series, popular history magazines, serializations in newspape…
Heroes, Myths and Anniversaries in Modern Scotland
One of the major problems with historiography the study of what historians have written is that it is concerned primarily with the work of professional historians. While historians may reflect the dominant ideological mores of the day, and the careful deconstruction of their works can offer useful insights into the political agenda which framed their manufacture, we can not take it for granted that their assumptions and values were exactly the sa…
Controlling the Past: Scottish Historiography and Scottish Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Historians of Scotland have recently come to recognise the importance of historiography, the study of the use of history. Scholars such as David Allan and Roger Mason have shown how history was used to confer legitimacy on ruling regimes in early-modern Scotland by twisting, bending and even fabricating the historical record (Allen 1993; Mason 1987). The invention of mythical despotic kings who had to be deposed for the benefit of the nation was …
Scotland in the Twentieth Century: In Defence of Oligarchy
The historian of twentieth-century Scotland faces a number of problems, not least of which is the difficulty of analysing historical trends that have not yet had time to mature into a coherent form or pattern. The massive shifts in Scottish politics, society, economy and culture in the last twenty years or so have frequently caught out the Scottish historian who has been denied the security of a relatively stable perspective from which to observe…
National Identity in Crisis: Politicians, Intellectuals and the ‘End of Scotland’, 1920–1939
A Working–Class Nation? Scottish Society and Politics in the Twentieth Century
A Working–Class Nation? Scottish Society and Politics in the Twentieth Century Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950. Edited by R. Duncan and A. Mclvor. Edinburgh: John Donald 1992. vii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85976-3730.People and Society in Scotland: A Social History of Modern Scotland, Volume III: 1914 to the Present. Edited by A. D. R. Dickson and J. H. TrebleEdinburgh: John Donald, 1992. x + 287 pp. ISBN 0-85976-212-2.…
Pressure Group or Political Party: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945
Pressure Group or Political Party?: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945 Get access RICHARD J. FINLAY RICHARD J. FINLAY University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 274–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.274 Published: 01 January 1992
National Identity in Crisis: Politicians, Intellectuals and the ‘End of Scotland’, 1920–1939
New Britain, New Scotland, New History? The Impact of Devolution on the Development of Scottish Historiography
David Hume's comment that 'this is the historical age and this is the historical nation' would appear to have as much resonance now as it did in the eighteenth century. The impact of devolution in Scotland has made Scottish history seem more relevant to its people. The nation, in keeping with its rediscovery of its political self, has embarked on a process of rediscovering its past. TV series, popular history magazines, serializations in newspape…
Housing Wealth Effects: Evidence from an Australian Panel
We explore the positive relationship between house prices and household spending by following a panel of Australian households. No evidence for ‘traditional housing wealth effects' is found, with young homeowners exhibiting the largest wealth effects. Young renters also exhibit a positive consumption response to house prices, although less so than young homeowners. This suggests that increasing house prices raise spending via easing credit constr…
Does History Matter? Political Scientists, Welsh and Scottish Devolution
When does history become history? When does it become appropriate to say that a sufficient distance in time has passed to let the historian apply the skills of the trade to best effect? These questions are important because they are central to that border region between history and contemporary studies and the vexed problem of intellectual ownership. The case of Scottish and Welsh devolution is a good case in point. All agree that they were (are)…
Controlling the Past: Scottish Historiography and Scottish Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Historians of Scotland have recently come to recognise the importance of historiography, the study of the use of history. Scholars such as David Allan and Roger Mason have shown how history was used to confer legitimacy on ruling regimes in early-modern Scotland by twisting, bending and even fabricating the historical record (Allen 1993; Mason 1987). The invention of mythical despotic kings who had to be deposed for the benefit of the nation was …
Pressure Group or Political Party: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945
Pressure Group or Political Party?: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945 Get access RICHARD J. FINLAY RICHARD J. FINLAY University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 274–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.274 Published: 01 January 1992
Heroes, Myths and Anniversaries in Modern Scotland
One of the major problems with historiography the study of what historians have written is that it is concerned primarily with the work of professional historians. While historians may reflect the dominant ideological mores of the day, and the careful deconstruction of their works can offer useful insights into the political agenda which framed their manufacture, we can not take it for granted that their assumptions and values were exactly the sa…
Scotland in the Twentieth Century: In Defence of Oligarchy
The historian of twentieth-century Scotland faces a number of problems, not least of which is the difficulty of analysing historical trends that have not yet had time to mature into a coherent form or pattern. The massive shifts in Scottish politics, society, economy and culture in the last twenty years or so have frequently caught out the Scottish historian who has been denied the security of a relatively stable perspective from which to observe…
Pressure Group or Political Party: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945
Pressure Group or Political Party?: The Nationalist Impact on Scottish Politics, 1928–1945 Get access RICHARD J. FINLAY RICHARD J. FINLAY University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 274–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.274 Published: 01 January 1992
A Working–Class Nation? Scottish Society and Politics in the Twentieth Century
A Working–Class Nation? Scottish Society and Politics in the Twentieth Century Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950. Edited by R. Duncan and A. Mclvor. Edinburgh: John Donald 1992. vii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-85976-3730.People and Society in Scotland: A Social History of Modern Scotland, Volume III: 1914 to the Present. Edited by A. D. R. Dickson and J. H. TrebleEdinburgh: John Donald, 1992. x + 287 pp. ISBN 0-85976-212-2.…
Controlling the Past: Scottish Historiography and Scottish Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Historians of Scotland have recently come to recognise the importance of historiography, the study of the use of history. Scholars such as David Allan and Roger Mason have shown how history was used to confer legitimacy on ruling regimes in early-modern Scotland by twisting, bending and even fabricating the historical record (Allen 1993; Mason 1987). The invention of mythical despotic kings who had to be deposed for the benefit of the nation was …
Scotland in the Twentieth Century: In Defence of Oligarchy
The historian of twentieth-century Scotland faces a number of problems, not least of which is the difficulty of analysing historical trends that have not yet had time to mature into a coherent form or pattern. The massive shifts in Scottish politics, society, economy and culture in the last twenty years or so have frequently caught out the Scottish historian who has been denied the security of a relatively stable perspective from which to observe…
National Identity in Crisis: Politicians, Intellectuals and the ‘End of Scotland’, 1920–1939
Heroes, Myths and Anniversaries in Modern Scotland
One of the major problems with historiography the study of what historians have written is that it is concerned primarily with the work of professional historians. While historians may reflect the dominant ideological mores of the day, and the careful deconstruction of their works can offer useful insights into the political agenda which framed their manufacture, we can not take it for granted that their assumptions and values were exactly the sa…
Does History Matter? Political Scientists, Welsh and Scottish Devolution
When does history become history? When does it become appropriate to say that a sufficient distance in time has passed to let the historian apply the skills of the trade to best effect? These questions are important because they are central to that border region between history and contemporary studies and the vexed problem of intellectual ownership. The case of Scottish and Welsh devolution is a good case in point. All agree that they were (are)…
New Britain, New Scotland, New History? The Impact of Devolution on the Development of Scottish Historiography
David Hume's comment that 'this is the historical age and this is the historical nation' would appear to have as much resonance now as it did in the eighteenth century. The impact of devolution in Scotland has made Scottish history seem more relevant to its people. The nation, in keeping with its rediscovery of its political self, has embarked on a process of rediscovering its past. TV series, popular history magazines, serializations in newspape…
Burness, ‘Strange Associations’
Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820–1833
Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron
Journal Article Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron Get access Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, by Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2010; pp. 433. £70; pb. £22.99). Richard J. Finlay Richard J. Finlay University of Strathclyde [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 525, April 2012, Pa…
The Making of the Modern Scottish Highlands 1939–1965, by John A. Burnett
The modern history of the Highlands is one of a region achieving a distinctive categorisation within Scotland that requires special attention to be paid to its problems, even though many of the issues associated with population decline and the adaptation of a small-scale rural economy to the modern world are not unique. Indeed, the Scottish Borders experienced a greater rate of population loss in the twentieth century, yet that region does not co…
Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars, by Iain J.M. Robertson
As a geographically and culturally distinct segment of Scottish society, the Highlands of Scotland have demanded their own special history. Whereas the central belt had industrialised and modernised from the mid-eighteenth century, the Highlands continued a historical trajectory into the modern era that was more in line with that of Ireland than the majority of the British mainland. As a consequence, many of the traditional paradigms of historica…
Housing Wealth Effects: Evidence from an Australian Panel
We explore the positive relationship between house prices and household spending by following a panel of Australian households. No evidence for ‘traditional housing wealth effects' is found, with young homeowners exhibiting the largest wealth effects. Young renters also exhibit a positive consumption response to house prices, although less so than young homeowners. This suggests that increasing house prices raise spending via easing credit constr…
Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence
For more than a decade now, the issue of Scottish independence has been one of the key features in British politics and has raised questions as to the likely survival of the United Kingdom in the post Brexit era. In Scotland, the SNP has been in government since 2007 and has established a political hegemony that makes it the most successful political party in terms of electoral politics in Europe. Yet, the political philosophy of this movement ha…
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience, by Michael Hunter
History (13 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (13 works) · History (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Irish and British Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)