Graeme Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8572-7425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Conservative Hold over Scottish Civil Society
As a carrier of influence and governance that stands distinct from parliamentary and municipal representation, civil society has been ascribed a particular layer of criticality in the Scottish example of the stateless nation. This article examines the voting choices made at the 1852 general election by those active within Edinburgh's voluntary associations. The evidence is generated by linking subscription lists to the city's published pollbook. …
Apple seeds
Once the disorderly output from the mainframe was pushed to one side, R.J. Morris was quick to realize the potential of the early Apple Mac personal computer to enhance how he taught the historical method. In this article, I reflect on Morris’ pedagogy in the fields of urban history and middle-class formation, and in his approach to nominal record linkage. These insights come from my experience as both an undergraduate and postgraduate student un…
The Climatic Roots of Scotland’s Vital Statistics
During the eighteen years between the introduction of civil registration in England (1837) and Scotland (1855), the drive for nationwide vital statistics coincided with the emergence of meteorology as a scientific discipline. Scotland’s inaugural registrar general, William Pitt Dundas, proposed the first motion that established the Scottish Meteorological Society (SMS) in 1855. The inaugural superintendent of statistics at the GROS, James Stark, …
Population Checks and Natural Laws
Through the lens of emergent laws of climatology developed to advance the scientific foundations and popular reach of practical meteorology in the nineteenth century, this article examines the checks on population and the global movement of people linked to reoccurring climate patterns and abnormal climatic events. Meteorological research contributed to debates within political economy and the public health movement, and to the disputed moral rat…
R. J. Morris's Nation within a Nation
Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world
This group of essays explores the ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped and contributed to the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Once thought of as a narrow and defensive conservative reaction to political change and external military threat, historians have recently recast loyalism as the embodiment of a disparate and multifaced identity embraced by those of different ethnicities, religions, and political persua…
Loyalism, legitimism, and the neo-Jacobite challenge to the Anglo-Scottish Union
Those who continued with its cause into the late Victorian age, framed loyalism as a principled challenge to the constitutional settlement that culminated in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. The case for restoring the House of Stuart, the focal point of their efforts, had become a distinctive strand within British loyalism but in many respects remained tangential to the movement for home rule in Scotland. Restoration of the Stuarts necessitated …
Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie, Scotch Baronial
The modern Scottish diaspora. Contemporary debates and perspectives
Alistair Mutch, Religion and National Identity
Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places
Contents: Introduction: Civil society, associations and urban places: class, nation and culture in 19th-century Europe, R.J. Morris Institution-building and class formation: how 19th-century bourgeois organized, Sven Beckert Voluntary societies and urban elites in 19th-century Naples, Daniela Luigia Caglioti The instrumentalization of bA1/4rgerlichkeit: associations and the middle class in Hallein, Austria from the 19th to the beginning of the 20…
Monarchy, Religion and the State
Might the unwritten constitution and acts of union that bind together the component nations of the United Kingdom and adorn the British monarchy atop the majority of Commonwealth nations also be an
Kyle Hughes. The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast
Two scholarly traditions are set to the side in order that Kyle Hughes might develop his study of the Scottish presence in Belfast. The first is the preference by researchers to follow principal migrant flows: Scots journeying beyond the British and Irish Isles. The second is that once the immigrant population of Belfast is distilled, migration from the south of the island demands most attention. Neither practice is dismissed by Hughes nor are th…
William Wallace
Reportage du Canada
Closing the Door on Modern Scotland's Gilded Cage
Writing in 1994 for the SHR, Morris and Morton's historiographical survey of modern Scotland was a tag-team grappling match with the gilded cage of the nation.They explored how historians had deployed the concept of nation when capturing the nineteenth-century past.They asked could, and should, national history be written through comparison with the historical development of England, reading off one nation against the other.For historians it seem…
The Scottish Diaspora
A history of the Scottish diaspora from c.1700 to 1945 GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748648931','ISBN:9780748648924','ISBN:9780748648948']); Did you know that Scotland was one of Europe's main population exporters in the age of mass migration? Or that the Scottish Honours System was introduced as far afield as New Zealand? This comprehensive introductory history of the Scottish diaspora examines these and related issues, exploring the m…
The Social Memory of Jane Porter and her Scottish Chiefs
Formed within the interplay of history, culture and cognition, the concept of social memory is introduced to evaluate a key element of Scotland's nineteenth-century national tale. Being never more than partially captured by state and monarchy, and only imperfectly carried by institutions and groups, the national tale has comprised a number of narratives. Within the post-Union fluidity of Scotland's place within Britain, and at a time of European …
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900
This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place. The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, inc…
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800-1900
Power, Knowledge, and Society in the City
Civil society, municipal government and the state
Civil society remains the most challenging and all-pervading of concepts, yet too rarely is it examined empirically. The potential of civil society is that it better allows understanding of local political structures as well as cross-class associational activity. Its alternatives, while many, are principally ‘public life’ and ‘influence’, both of which have their own highly respected traditions. It is argued here that civil society offers a power…
The Most Efficacious Patriot
Scottish Rights and ‘Centralisation’ in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
This article will address the assumption that the essential definition of nationalism is parliamentary political. By highlighting the solitary Scottish nationalist movement in the mid‐nineteenth century, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, this article asks whether a ‘centralised’ state for the Scottish nation should be the model against which nationalism is interpreted. By developing the concept of ‘civil society’ as…
Scotland and the United Kingdom
Part 1 The economics of structural change: the Victorian legacy the patterns of structural change the economics of decline the economics of regeneration. Part 2 Government and the economy: government expenditure and taxation government policy - aims and mechanisms government policy - implementation and effects. Part 3 Conclusion
Civil society, municipal government and the state
Civil society remains the most challenging and all-pervading of concepts, yet too rarely is it examined empirically. The potential of civil society is that it better allows understanding of local political structures as well as cross-class associational activity. Its alternatives, while many, are principally ‘public life’ and ‘influence’, both of which have their own highly respected traditions. It is argued here that civil society offers a power…
Scottish Rights and ‘Centralisation’ in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
This article will address the assumption that the essential definition of nationalism is parliamentary political. By highlighting the solitary Scottish nationalist movement in the mid‐nineteenth century, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, this article asks whether a ‘centralised’ state for the Scottish nation should be the model against which nationalism is interpreted. By developing the concept of ‘civil society’ as…
Unfit for Heroes
The Scottish Diaspora
A history of the Scottish diaspora from c.1700 to 1945 GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748648931','ISBN:9780748648924','ISBN:9780748648948']); Did you know that Scotland was one of Europe's main population exporters in the age of mass migration? Or that the Scottish Honours System was introduced as far afield as New Zealand? This comprehensive introductory history of the Scottish diaspora examines these and related issues, exploring the m…
The Most Efficacious Patriot
Closing the Door on Modern Scotland's Gilded Cage
Writing in 1994 for the SHR, Morris and Morton's historiographical survey of modern Scotland was a tag-team grappling match with the gilded cage of the nation.They explored how historians had deployed the concept of nation when capturing the nineteenth-century past.They asked could, and should, national history be written through comparison with the historical development of England, reading off one nation against the other.For historians it seem…
Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world
This group of essays explores the ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped and contributed to the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Once thought of as a narrow and defensive conservative reaction to political change and external military threat, historians have recently recast loyalism as the embodiment of a disparate and multifaced identity embraced by those of different ethnicities, religions, and political persua…
Where was nineteenth-century Scotland
Those who go in search of nineteenth-century Scotland face a bewildering experience. The literature and the sources are rich, yet attempts to produce a coherent history of nineteenth-century Scotland as Scotland are few and often lack assurance. Let us start with the best. The recent books by Smout and Lynch stand as dolmens to the scholarship of recent decades. For Christopher Smout, the Scottish people had a history between 1560 and 1830, yet b…
Where was nineteenth-century Scotland
Those who go in search of nineteenth-century Scotland face a bewildering experience. The literature and the sources are rich, yet attempts to produce a coherent history of nineteenth-century Scotland as Scotland are few and often lack assurance. Let us start with the best. The recent books by Smout and Lynch stand as dolmens to the scholarship of recent decades. For Christopher Smout, the Scottish people had a history between 1560 and 1830, yet b…
Unfit for Heroes
Scottish Rights and ‘Centralisation’ in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
This article will address the assumption that the essential definition of nationalism is parliamentary political. By highlighting the solitary Scottish nationalist movement in the mid‐nineteenth century, the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, this article asks whether a ‘centralised’ state for the Scottish nation should be the model against which nationalism is interpreted. By developing the concept of ‘civil society’ as…
Scotland and the United Kingdom
Part 1 The economics of structural change: the Victorian legacy the patterns of structural change the economics of decline the economics of regeneration. Part 2 Government and the economy: government expenditure and taxation government policy - aims and mechanisms government policy - implementation and effects. Part 3 Conclusion
Civil society, municipal government and the state
Civil society remains the most challenging and all-pervading of concepts, yet too rarely is it examined empirically. The potential of civil society is that it better allows understanding of local political structures as well as cross-class associational activity. Its alternatives, while many, are principally ‘public life’ and ‘influence’, both of which have their own highly respected traditions. It is argued here that civil society offers a power…
The Most Efficacious Patriot
Power, Knowledge, and Society in the City
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900
This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place. The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, inc…
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800-1900
The Social Memory of Jane Porter and her Scottish Chiefs
Formed within the interplay of history, culture and cognition, the concept of social memory is introduced to evaluate a key element of Scotland's nineteenth-century national tale. Being never more than partially captured by state and monarchy, and only imperfectly carried by institutions and groups, the national tale has comprised a number of narratives. Within the post-Union fluidity of Scotland's place within Britain, and at a time of European …
Reportage du Canada
Closing the Door on Modern Scotland's Gilded Cage
Writing in 1994 for the SHR, Morris and Morton's historiographical survey of modern Scotland was a tag-team grappling match with the gilded cage of the nation.They explored how historians had deployed the concept of nation when capturing the nineteenth-century past.They asked could, and should, national history be written through comparison with the historical development of England, reading off one nation against the other.For historians it seem…
The Scottish Diaspora
A history of the Scottish diaspora from c.1700 to 1945 GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748648931','ISBN:9780748648924','ISBN:9780748648948']); Did you know that Scotland was one of Europe's main population exporters in the age of mass migration? Or that the Scottish Honours System was introduced as far afield as New Zealand? This comprehensive introductory history of the Scottish diaspora examines these and related issues, exploring the m…
William Wallace
Monarchy, Religion and the State
Might the unwritten constitution and acts of union that bind together the component nations of the United Kingdom and adorn the British monarchy atop the majority of Commonwealth nations also be an
Kyle Hughes. The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast
Two scholarly traditions are set to the side in order that Kyle Hughes might develop his study of the Scottish presence in Belfast. The first is the preference by researchers to follow principal migrant flows: Scots journeying beyond the British and Irish Isles. The second is that once the immigrant population of Belfast is distilled, migration from the south of the island demands most attention. Neither practice is dismissed by Hughes nor are th…
Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places
Contents: Introduction: Civil society, associations and urban places: class, nation and culture in 19th-century Europe, R.J. Morris Institution-building and class formation: how 19th-century bourgeois organized, Sven Beckert Voluntary societies and urban elites in 19th-century Naples, Daniela Luigia Caglioti The instrumentalization of bA1/4rgerlichkeit: associations and the middle class in Hallein, Austria from the 19th to the beginning of the 20…
Alistair Mutch, Religion and National Identity
The modern Scottish diaspora. Contemporary debates and perspectives
Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie, Scotch Baronial
R. J. Morris's Nation within a Nation
Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world
This group of essays explores the ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped and contributed to the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Once thought of as a narrow and defensive conservative reaction to political change and external military threat, historians have recently recast loyalism as the embodiment of a disparate and multifaced identity embraced by those of different ethnicities, religions, and political persua…
Loyalism, legitimism, and the neo-Jacobite challenge to the Anglo-Scottish Union
Those who continued with its cause into the late Victorian age, framed loyalism as a principled challenge to the constitutional settlement that culminated in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. The case for restoring the House of Stuart, the focal point of their efforts, had become a distinctive strand within British loyalism but in many respects remained tangential to the movement for home rule in Scotland. Restoration of the Stuarts necessitated …
Population Checks and Natural Laws
Through the lens of emergent laws of climatology developed to advance the scientific foundations and popular reach of practical meteorology in the nineteenth century, this article examines the checks on population and the global movement of people linked to reoccurring climate patterns and abnormal climatic events. Meteorological research contributed to debates within political economy and the public health movement, and to the disputed moral rat…
Apple seeds
Once the disorderly output from the mainframe was pushed to one side, R.J. Morris was quick to realize the potential of the early Apple Mac personal computer to enhance how he taught the historical method. In this article, I reflect on Morris’ pedagogy in the fields of urban history and middle-class formation, and in his approach to nominal record linkage. These insights come from my experience as both an undergraduate and postgraduate student un…
Political science (18 works) · History (16 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Irish and British Studies (8 works)