David Worthington
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Worthington |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Worthington |
| SIGNATURE | WORTHINGTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Highlands and Islands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0512-9631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Multilingual Minister
This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of northern mainland Scotland) produced a dynamic scholarly contribution in local, regional, national and t…
Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707
This article uncovers the Scottish Highlands’ earliest-known overseas slave-owning circle and the imperial entanglement with the Dutch Empire and its sugar on which this depended. It thus provides a case study of the transnational, Dutch-influenced nature of commerce in a non-metropolitan part of northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. The article highlights two interconnected contemporary developments: the engagement of Highland migran…
Ferries in the Firthlands
This article identifies the social and cultural history of the early modern tidal water ferry, its skippers and passengers, by way of evidence from a northern Scottish rural coast. Evidence from the region's ‘firthlands’ reveals an amphibious communications network which transformed gradually prior to the early nineteenth century. The article argues that the defining local topography of coastal adjacency both influenced, and was influenced by, th…
Unfinished work and damaged materials’
The burgeoning of a historiography of the Scots in Poland–Lithuania has been hindered by either the unavailability to scholars of, or their unwillingness to tackle, secondary sources in the relevant foreign languages. Despite this ethnic group having comprised, at one time, the largest representation of the Scottish diaspora in a foreign state, this article demonstrates that, since Poland–Lithuania’s partition, historiographical coverage has been…
The Settlements of the Beauly-Wick Coast and the Historiography of the Moray Firth
Narrow strips of sea do not always function as ‘chokepoints’ for the communities that live around them. This article interrogates the historiography of the ‘corridors’ of the Moray Firth region, taken here to be inclusive of the Dornoch Firth, the Cromarty Firth and the inner Moray Firth, and incorporating the Inverness, Kessock and Beauly Firths. Although public and private bodies use the term ‘Moray Firth’ frequently, with few exceptions histor…
The Great Immigration
Report on the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands
A Northern Scottish Maritime Region
Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe
Journal Article Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe Get access Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe, ed. Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2006; pp. 483. £50). David Worthington David Worthington University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, April 2008, Pages 458–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen069 Publ…
Network North
Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707
This article uncovers the Scottish Highlands’ earliest-known overseas slave-owning circle and the imperial entanglement with the Dutch Empire and its sugar on which this depended. It thus provides a case study of the transnational, Dutch-influenced nature of commerce in a non-metropolitan part of northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. The article highlights two interconnected contemporary developments: the engagement of Highland migran…
A Northern Scottish Maritime Region
Network North
Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe
Journal Article Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe Get access Irish Communities in Early-Modern Europe, ed. Thomas O'Connor and Mary Ann Lyons (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2006; pp. 483. £50). David Worthington David Worthington University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, April 2008, Pages 458–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen069 Publ…
A Northern Scottish Maritime Region
Report on the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands
Ferries in the Firthlands
This article identifies the social and cultural history of the early modern tidal water ferry, its skippers and passengers, by way of evidence from a northern Scottish rural coast. Evidence from the region's ‘firthlands’ reveals an amphibious communications network which transformed gradually prior to the early nineteenth century. The article argues that the defining local topography of coastal adjacency both influenced, and was influenced by, th…
Unfinished work and damaged materials’
The burgeoning of a historiography of the Scots in Poland–Lithuania has been hindered by either the unavailability to scholars of, or their unwillingness to tackle, secondary sources in the relevant foreign languages. Despite this ethnic group having comprised, at one time, the largest representation of the Scottish diaspora in a foreign state, this article demonstrates that, since Poland–Lithuania’s partition, historiographical coverage has been…
The Settlements of the Beauly-Wick Coast and the Historiography of the Moray Firth
Narrow strips of sea do not always function as ‘chokepoints’ for the communities that live around them. This article interrogates the historiography of the ‘corridors’ of the Moray Firth region, taken here to be inclusive of the Dornoch Firth, the Cromarty Firth and the inner Moray Firth, and incorporating the Inverness, Kessock and Beauly Firths. Although public and private bodies use the term ‘Moray Firth’ frequently, with few exceptions histor…
The Great Immigration
Sugar, Slave-Owning, Suriname and the Dutch Imperial Entanglement of the Scottish Highlands before 1707
This article uncovers the Scottish Highlands’ earliest-known overseas slave-owning circle and the imperial entanglement with the Dutch Empire and its sugar on which this depended. It thus provides a case study of the transnational, Dutch-influenced nature of commerce in a non-metropolitan part of northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. The article highlights two interconnected contemporary developments: the engagement of Highland migran…
The Multilingual Minister
This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of northern mainland Scotland) produced a dynamic scholarly contribution in local, regional, national and t…
History (10 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (7 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (7 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Geology (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works)