Kieran German
My research specialism is the Jacobite movement in Scotland, c. 1688-1788. My doctoral thesis explored Jacobite culture, doctrine and action in the north-east of Scotland in the Jacobite century, demonstrating the importance of episcopacy, literature and education, and commercial networks (including transnational networks) in sustaining Jacobitism between risings and promoting Jacobite rebellions.
I have published extensively in the area of Jacobite studies. I have co-edited two collections of essays on Jacobite themes: Scottish Liturgical Traditions and Religious Politics: From Reformers to Jacobites, 1560-1764 (EUP, 2021) which followed Living With Jacobitism, 1690-1788: The Three Kingdoms and Beyond (London, 2014). I have published journal articles and book chapters on Jacobite commitment among Scottish episcopalians and mercantile engagement with Jacobitism in Scotland.
My current research is focused around the expression of Jacobitism through culture and how this contributed to a) Jacobite commitment away from martial rebellion and b) the evolution of Scottish identities in the eighteenth century. This research has focal points in material culture, literature and gender roles and aims to diversify historiography which has traditionally concentrated on active rebellions, the court in exile and elite society. Accordingly I am currently co-editing (with Darren S. Layne) Cultures of Scottish Jacobitism: Identities, Memories, and Materialities, 1688-1788 and Beyond. We have been invited by the Jacobite Studies Trust to submit this volume for consideration as the inaugural release of the Jacobite Studies series to be published by Manchester University Press.
As a complement to this research, which seeks to identify Jacobitism not as an alternative to Whig Scotland but a feature of eighteenth-century society, I am currently researching a monograph-length book Jacobitism in the Age of Improvement. Based on original research of estate and business papers in university and national archives and supplemented by State Papers, Stuart Papers and Cumberland Papers, this book will enumerate and analyse the role of Jacobites in industrialisation, overseas commerce and agricultural improvement, challenging the atavistic perception of Jacobitism.
I have a further, not unrelated, research interest in the emergence of the Scotch whisky industry and have published on the social and commercial impact of the 1820s licensing legislation (Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 2019). I have received research funding from Morrison Bowmore Distillers and the William Grant Foundation (via the Cabrach Trust) to research the heritage and legacy of Scotch distilling. This is in addition to successful funding applications to pursue Jacobite studies, which includes from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Jacobite Studies Trust, the Robert Nicol Trust and the Aberdeen Town and County History Society.
I am a council member of the Jacobite Studies Trust. I have delivered research papers to the JST conferences at the British Academy in London (2008), in Glasgow (2010) and in Paris (2012). I am committed to present at the conference in Florence (originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19). I was organiser of the Glasgow 2010 conference at the University of Strathclyde alongside Professor Allan I. Macinnes, with whom I co-edited the published proceedings. Indeed, I have organised several academic conferences at the Universities of Strathclyde and Aberdeen.
I have taught at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Dundee. At undergraduate level I have taught general Scottish History from the early kingdom to the 1997 referendum and on more focused courses such as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Union to Enlightenment. At postgraduate level I have taught Jacobitism in Scotland; Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire; and Scottish National Identities since 1807. I have specific expertise in delivering Master's level Scottish History modules by distance learning, having taught for the past four years on Dundee University’s Scottish History MLitt which is delivered worldwide via a VLE. I have moderated assessment for a range of Scottish, British and European UG and PG modules. I have a PGDE (postgraduate diploma in education) and am an experienced skilled practitioner in pedagogy and andragogy.
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I have published extensively in the area of Jacobite studies. I have co-edited two collections of essays on Jacobite themes: Scottish Liturgical Traditions and Religious Politics: From Reformers to Jacobites, 1560-1764 (EUP, 2021) which followed Living With Jacobitism, 1690-1788: The Three Kingdoms and Beyond (London, 2014). I have published journal articles and book chapters on Jacobite commitment among Scottish episcopalians and mercantile engagement with Jacobitism in Scotland.
My current research is focused around the expression of Jacobitism through culture and how this contributed to a) Jacobite commitment away from martial rebellion and b) the evolution of Scottish identities in the eighteenth century. This research has focal points in material culture, literature and gender roles and aims to diversify historiography which has traditionally concentrated on active rebellions, the court in exile and elite society. Accordingly I am currently co-editing (with Darren S. Layne) Cultures of Scottish Jacobitism: Identities, Memories, and Materialities, 1688-1788 and Beyond. We have been invited by the Jacobite Studies Trust to submit this volume for consideration as the inaugural release of the Jacobite Studies series to be published by Manchester University Press.
As a complement to this research, which seeks to identify Jacobitism not as an alternative to Whig Scotland but a feature of eighteenth-century society, I am currently researching a monograph-length book Jacobitism in the Age of Improvement. Based on original research of estate and business papers in university and national archives and supplemented by State Papers, Stuart Papers and Cumberland Papers, this book will enumerate and analyse the role of Jacobites in industrialisation, overseas commerce and agricultural improvement, challenging the atavistic perception of Jacobitism.
I have a further, not unrelated, research interest in the emergence of the Scotch whisky industry and have published on the social and commercial impact of the 1820s licensing legislation (Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 2019). I have received research funding from Morrison Bowmore Distillers and the William Grant Foundation (via the Cabrach Trust) to research the heritage and legacy of Scotch distilling. This is in addition to successful funding applications to pursue Jacobite studies, which includes from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Jacobite Studies Trust, the Robert Nicol Trust and the Aberdeen Town and County History Society.
I am a council member of the Jacobite Studies Trust. I have delivered research papers to the JST conferences at the British Academy in London (2008), in Glasgow (2010) and in Paris (2012). I am committed to present at the conference in Florence (originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19). I was organiser of the Glasgow 2010 conference at the University of Strathclyde alongside Professor Allan I. Macinnes, with whom I co-edited the published proceedings. Indeed, I have organised several academic conferences at the Universities of Strathclyde and Aberdeen.
I have taught at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Dundee. At undergraduate level I have taught general Scottish History from the early kingdom to the 1997 referendum and on more focused courses such as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Union to Enlightenment. At postgraduate level I have taught Jacobitism in Scotland; Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire; and Scottish National Identities since 1807. I have specific expertise in delivering Master's level Scottish History modules by distance learning, having taught for the past four years on Dundee University’s Scottish History MLitt which is delivered worldwide via a VLE. I have moderated assessment for a range of Scottish, British and European UG and PG modules. I have a PGDE (postgraduate diploma in education) and am an experienced skilled practitioner in pedagogy and andragogy.
Address: United Kingdom
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This book provides a fresh examination of the Jacobite movement based not on dynastic identification but on confessional and intellectual bases of support, focussing on the composite and nuanced traditions that sustained the Jacobite movement for seven decades beyond the Revolution of 1688-90.
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Thesis by Kieran German
This thesis focuses on locally-produced research material, chiefly: burgh council records; records produced by provisional Jacobite administrations; church records; and correspondence of churchmen, laymen, merchants and elites. This has been augmented by research of state-papers and government correspondence, contemporary pamphlets and literature. Jacobitism had multiple, sometimes conflicting, stimuli. The Jacobite individual was often dichotomous, where the demands of Jacobite principle and intent had to run in tandem with prospering within an established community in post-Revolution Britain. The Jacobite experience was by no means straight-forward. The dynamic between Jacobitism, Scots Episcopalianism and regional life (including politics, mercantilism, education and culture) is a central concern of this thesis.
This thesis describes and analyses the development of Jacobitism and Scots Episcopacy in the north-east of Scotland, with particular emphasis on the towns of Aberdeen. It assesses the contribution the region made to intellectual, cultural and martial Jacobitism. It re-evaluates the scale and role of Jacobitism in the north-east and, in turn, the development of the Jacobite cause over the course of six decades.
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This book provides a fresh examination of the Jacobite movement based not on dynastic identification but on confessional and intellectual bases of support, focussing on the composite and nuanced traditions that sustained the Jacobite movement for seven decades beyond the Revolution of 1688-90.
This thesis focuses on locally-produced research material, chiefly: burgh council records; records produced by provisional Jacobite administrations; church records; and correspondence of churchmen, laymen, merchants and elites. This has been augmented by research of state-papers and government correspondence, contemporary pamphlets and literature. Jacobitism had multiple, sometimes conflicting, stimuli. The Jacobite individual was often dichotomous, where the demands of Jacobite principle and intent had to run in tandem with prospering within an established community in post-Revolution Britain. The Jacobite experience was by no means straight-forward. The dynamic between Jacobitism, Scots Episcopalianism and regional life (including politics, mercantilism, education and culture) is a central concern of this thesis.
This thesis describes and analyses the development of Jacobitism and Scots Episcopacy in the north-east of Scotland, with particular emphasis on the towns of Aberdeen. It assesses the contribution the region made to intellectual, cultural and martial Jacobitism. It re-evaluates the scale and role of Jacobitism in the north-east and, in turn, the development of the Jacobite cause over the course of six decades.