After completing both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, I taught in the History Department there (1994-6) before joining the University of Stirling in 1996, where I teach eighteenth-century British political history (parliamentary and popular) and the history of gender in Britain (c.1750-1930). I am currently studying the state trials for sedition and treason in the 1790s in Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada and America, from the perspective of the state in the age of Enlightenment; and co-editing the fabulous correspondence (1750-1810) between the Ayrshire Church of Scotland minister, James Wodrow, and the Midlands banker, Samuel Kenrick, held at the Dr Williams Library in London.
Head of Division, History, Heritage and Politics
Co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review
https://euppublishing.com/loi/shr
Co-director, Eighteenth-Century Studies at Stirling
https://www.stir.ac.uk/…century-studies/
Member of the board of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Member of the editorial board of the Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online
Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Higher Education Academy
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
Member of Academic Council
My research interests lie mainly in later eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British political history, particularly British attitudes to international events such as the American and French Revolutions. My publications include A War of Ideas? British Attitudes towards the French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802 (1998); British Visions of America, 1775-1820: Republican Realities (2013); Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions (2019, co-edited with Davis and Pentland); and The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, vol. 1, 1750-1783 (co-edited with Fitzpatrick and Page). I am currently engaged in two major research projects. The first compares the state trials of the 1790s in Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada and America, from the perspective of the state in the age of Enlightenment. The second is a collaboration with Dr Anthony Page (University of Tasmania) and Dr Martin Fitzpatrick (University of Aberystwyth) to publish an edition of the important correspondence (1750-1810) between the Ayrshire Church of Scotland minister, James Wodrow, and the Midlands banker, Samuel Kenrick, held at the Dr Williams Library in London. We are currently working on volume 2, 1784-1789.
Book Chapter
'The 1790s: establishing the mind of government in 1820'
Macleod E (2022) 'The 1790s: establishing the mind of government in 1820'. In: Carruthers G, Gallagher KT, Lamont C & Smith G (eds.) 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Scottish Insurrection. Edinburgh: Birlinn, p. 18–35. https://birlinn.co.uk/product/1820-scottish-rebellion/
Edited Book
The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750-1810. Volume 1, 1750-1783
Fitzpatrick M, Macleod E & Page A (eds.) (2020) The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750-1810. Volume 1, 1750-1783. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wodrow-kenrick-correspondence-1750-1810-9780198809012?cc=gb&lang=en&#
Book Chapter
The English and Scottish Trials of the 1790s Compared
Macleod E (2019) The English and Scottish Trials of the 1790s Compared. In: Davis M, MacLeod E & Pentland G (eds.) Political Trials in in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic 1793-1848. Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98959-4_4
Article
A proper manner of carrying on controversies: Richard Price and the American Revolution
Macleod E (2019) A proper manner of carrying on controversies: Richard Price and the American Revolution. Huntington Library Quarterly, 82 (2), pp. 277-302. https://hlq.pennpress.org/home/; https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2019.0015
Edited Book
Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848
Davis MT, Macleod E & Pentland G (eds.) (2019) Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848. Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98959-4
Book Chapter
Introduction: Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848
Davis MT, Macleod E & Pentland G (2019) Introduction: Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848. In: Davis M, Macleod E & Pentland G (eds.) Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848. Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98959-4_1
Book Review
Americomania and the French revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802
Macleod E (2016) Americomania and the French revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802. Review of: Americomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802, by Wil Verhoeven, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 387pp., ISBN 978-1-107-04019-9 (hardback). Global Discourse, 6 (1-2), pp. 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1053249
Book Chapter
Macleod E (2015) British Radical Attitudes Towards the United States of America in the 1790s: the case of William Winterbotham. In: Pentland G & Davis M (eds.) Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H.T. Dickinson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 149-162. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liberty-property-and-popular-politics-13437.html
Book Chapter
British Evangelicals and the United States of America, c. 1775-c.1820
Macleod E (2015) British Evangelicals and the United States of America, c. 1775-c.1820. In: Cross A, Morden P & Randall I (eds.) Pathways and Patterns in History: Essays on Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Modern World in Honour of David Bebbington. London and Oxford: Spurgeon's College and the Baptist Historical Society, pp. 299-318. http://spurgeons-college.myshopify.com/products/pathways-and-patterns
Book Chapter
Macleod E (2015) Revolution. In: Garrett A & Harris J (eds.) Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. Volume 1: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion. A History of Scottish Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 361-403. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199560677.do
Book Chapter
Thomas Paine and Jeffersonian America
Macleod E (2013) Thomas Paine and Jeffersonian America. In: Newman S & Onuf P (eds.) Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolution. Jeffersonian America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, pp. 209-228. http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4514.xml?q=author%3A%22Onuf%2C%20Peter%20S.%22
Article
British Spectators of the French Revolution: the view from across the Channel
Macleod E (2013) British Spectators of the French Revolution: the view from across the Channel. Groniek, (197), pp. 377-392. http://groniek.nl/uitgaves/197-toeschouwers-van-de-franse-revolutie/
Book Chapter
Conservative reaction, c.1792-1820: the case for rejection
Macleod E (2013) Conservative reaction, c.1792-1820: the case for rejection. In: Macleod E (ed.) British Visions of America, 1775-1820: Republican Realities. The Enlightenment World, 27. London: Pickering and Chatto, pp. 73-99. http://www.tandfebooks.com/action/showBook?doi=10.4324/9781315653365; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315653365
Authored Book
British Visions of America, 1775-1820: Republican Realities
Macleod E (2013) British Visions of America, 1775-1820: Republican Realities. Enlightenment World, 27. London: Pickering and Chatto. http://universitypublishingonline.org/pickeringchatto/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781851966707
Book Review
Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833
Macleod E (2012) Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833. Review of: Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820–1833, by Gordon Pentland (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2008; pp.234. ISBN-10: 0861932994; ISBN-13: 978-0861932993. English Historical Review, 127 (524), pp. 195-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer371
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Civil Liberties and Baptists: William Winterbotham of Plymouth in prison and thinking of America
Macleod E (2011) Civil Liberties and Baptists: William Winterbotham of Plymouth in prison and thinking of America. Baptist Quarterly, 44 (4), pp. 196-222. http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk/basicpage.php?contents=quarterly&page_title=Baptist%20Quarterly
Book Chapter
Macleod E (2010) 'Thinking Minds of Both Sexes’: Patriotism, British Bluestockings, and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775–1802. In: Hagemann K, Mettele G & Rendall J (eds.) Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 247-264. http://us.macmillan.com/genderwarandpolitics
Book Review
The Scottish People and the French Revolution
Macleod E (2010) The Scottish People and the French Revolution. Review of: The Scottish People and the French Revolution. By Bob Harris. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. Pp. viii, 340. ISBN: 9781851968848.. Scottish Historical Review, 89 (2), pp. 271-272. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2010.0218
Book Review
British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1783, pt 1, 1763-1776
Macleod E (2010) British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1783, pt 1, 1763-1776. Review of:
ed by Harry T. Dickinson. London: Pickering and Chatto. 2007. 4 vols. ISBN:
978-1-85196-886-2. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33 (1), pp. 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00143.x
Book Review
Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794
Macleod E (2009) Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794. Review of: Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794. Edited by John Barrell and Jon Mee. London: Pickering and Chatto. Part 1: 2006. 5 vols. ISBN: 1-85196-732-X. Part 2: 2007. 3 vols. ISBN: 978-1-85196-811-4.. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32 (2), pp. 268-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00065.x
Article
British Attitudes to the French Revolution
Macleod E (2007) British Attitudes to the French Revolution. Historical Journal, 50 (3), pp. 689-709. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HIS; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X07006310
Book Review
The independent man: Citizenship and gender politics in Georgian England by Matthew McCormack
Macleod E (2007) The independent man: Citizenship and gender politics in Georgian England by Matthew McCormack. Review of: The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England. By Matthew McCormack. Manchester University Press. 2005. ix + 222pp. ISBN-10: 0719070554; ISBN-13: 978-0719070556. History, 92 (307), pp. 399-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.401_35.x
Book Chapter
Scottish Responses to the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Macleod E (2005) Scottish Responses to the Irish Rebellion of 1798. In: Brotherstone T, Clark A & Whelan K (eds.) These Fissured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British History, 1798-1848. Edinburgh: Birlinn (Imprint: John Donald), pp. 123-140. http://www.birlinn.co.uk/book/details/These-Fissured-Isles-9781904607502/
Book Chapter
The Scottish Opposition Whigs and the French Revolution
Macleod E (2005) The Scottish Opposition Whigs and the French Revolution. In: Harris B (ed.) Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution. Edinburgh: John Donald, pp. 79-98. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scotland-Age-French-Revolution-Harris/dp/1904607489
Article
La Question du Citoyen Actif: Les conservateurs Britanniques face à la Révolution française
Macleod E (2005) La Question du Citoyen Actif: Les conservateurs Britanniques face à la Révolution française [The problem of the active citizen: conservative reactions to the French Revolution in Britain]. Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise, (342), pp. 47-72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41889217
Book Review
Macleod E (2005) Pitt the younger: A life. Review of: Pitt the Younger: A Life, by Michael J Turner, London: Hambledon, 2003, 358pp. ISBN 9781852853778. English Historical Review, 120 (485), pp. 245-246. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei094
Book Review
Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony
Macleod E (2003) Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony. Review of: Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony. By Ian Donnachie. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 2000 Pp. xii, 290. ISBN 1 86232 131 0. Scottish Historical Review, 82 (214), pp. 322-323. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2003.82.2.322
Book Review
A unique and glorious mission: Women and presbyterianism Scotland, 1830-1930
Macleod E (2003) A unique and glorious mission: Women and presbyterianism Scotland, 1830-1930. Review of: A Unique and Glorious Mission: Women and Presbyterianism in Scotland 1830-1930, Lesley A. Orr Macdonald, (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2000), 381pp. ISBN 978-0859764780. Victorian Studies, 45 (4), pp. 749-751. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3829546
Book Review
The Anti-Jacobin novel: British conservatism and the French Revolution
Macleod E (2003) The Anti-Jacobin novel: British conservatism and the French Revolution. Review of: The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution. By M. O. Grenby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii + 271pp ISBN 9780521021265. History, 88 (289), pp. 147-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00253_4
Book Review
Scotland in the eighteenth century: Union and Enlightenment
Macleod E (2002) Scotland in the eighteenth century: Union and Enlightenment. Review of: Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment. By David Allan. Harlow: Longman. 2002. viii + 220pp ISBN 9780582382473. History, 87 (288), pp. 613-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.t01-1-00244
Book Chapter
The Crisis of the French Revolution
Macleod E (2002) The Crisis of the French Revolution. In: Dickinson H T (ed.) A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain. Blackwell Companions to British History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 112-124. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0631218378.html
Book Review
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol 2, 1540-1840
Macleod E (2002) The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol 2, 1540-1840. Review of: Peter Clark (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol 2, 1540-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 934pp, ISBN 9780521431415.. Scottish Historical Review, 81 (211), pp. 131-134. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2002.81.1.131
Book Review
Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848
Macleod E (2002) Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848. Review of: Revolutionary Brittania? Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848, by Edward Royle, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, 214pp. ISBN 9780719048036. English Historical Review, 117 (470), pp. 205-206. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.470.205
Book Review
Macleod E (2002) The Younger Pitt. Review of: Michael Duffy, The Younger Pitt (Harlow: Longman, 2000), xiv + 247pp, ISBN 9780582052789. History, 87 (285), pp. 152-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00217
Book Review
Imagining the king's death: Figurative treason, fantasies of regicide 1793-1796
Macleod E (2001) Imagining the king's death: Figurative treason, fantasies of regicide 1793-1796. Review of: Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793–1796. By John Barrell. Oxford University Press. 2000. xvii + 737pp. ISBN 978-0-19-811292-1. History, 86 (282), pp. 246-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00189
Book Review
Secret service: British agents in France 1792-1815
Macleod E (2001) Secret service: British agents in France 1792-1815. Review of: Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792-1815. by Elizabeth Sparrow. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer. 1999. Pp. xvi, 459. ISBN 0-85115-764-5. Albion, 33 (1), pp. 129-130. https://doi.org/10.2307/4053083
Book Review
Women in Scotland, c.1100-c.1750
Macleod E (2000) Women in Scotland, c.1100-c.1750. Review of: Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, Women in Scotland, c.1100-1750 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press), 1999, pp. xxx+272. ISBN 9781862320468. English Historical Review, 115 (464), pp. 1282-1283. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1282
Article
A City Invincible? Edinburgh and the War Against Revolutionary France
Macleod E (2000) A City Invincible? Edinburgh and the War Against Revolutionary France. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23 (2), pp. 153-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2000.tb00584.x
Book Review
Macleod E (2000) William Pulteney, A 'Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel, Intitled, Sedition and Defamation Display'd' (1731). Review of: W. Pulteney, A Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel; Entitled, Sedition and Defamation Display'd (1731), ed. H.T. Dickinson (New York: AMS Press, 1998), 30pp. ISBN 978-1171389002. History, 85 (278), pp. 353-353. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00150
Book Review
Protestantism and national identity: Britain and Ireland, c1650-1860
Macleod E (2000) Protestantism and national identity: Britain and Ireland, c1650-1860. Review of:
Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, Pp. xi, 317. ISBN 0 521 62077 5. Scottish Historical Review, 79 (207), pp. 125-127. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2000.79.1.125
Book Review
Edmund Burke, vol 1, 1730-1784
Macleod E (2000) Edmund Burke, vol 1, 1730-1784. Review of: Edmund Burke: Volume I, 1730–1784. By F. P. Lock. London: Clarendon Press. 1998. xv + 564pp. ISBN 978-0-19-922663-4. History, 85 (277), pp. 163-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00141
Book Review
The British monarchy and the French Revolution
Macleod E (2000) The British monarchy and the French Revolution. Review of: The British Monarchy and the French Revolution. By Marilyn Morris. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1998. viii + 229pp. ISBN 978-0300206456. History, 85 (277), pp. 170-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00142
Book Review
The waning of 'old corruption': The politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846
Macleod E (1999) The waning of 'old corruption': The politics of economical reform in Britain, 1779-1846. Review of: The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779±1846. By Philip Harling. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xii 307pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820576-0. History, 84 (274), pp. 371-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00113
Book Review
William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795
Macleod E (1999) William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795. Review of: William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795. By Jennifer Mori. Edinburgh: Keele University Press. 1997. xii 305pp. ISBN 978-1853311376. History, 84 (274), pp. 371-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00112
Authored Book
A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802
Macleod E (1998) A War of Ideas: British Attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802. Aldershot: Ashgate. http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Ideas-Attitudes-Revolutionary-1792-1802/dp/1840146141/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338379205&sr=1-1
Book Review
Lords of all the world: Ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-1800
Macleod E (1998) Lords of all the world: Ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-1800. Review of: Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-1800. By Anthony Pagden. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1995. x 244pp. ISBN. History, 83 (272), pp. 714-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00093
Book Review
Regency England: The age of Lord Liverpool
Macleod E (1998) Regency England: The age of Lord Liverpool. Review of: Regency England: The Age of Lord Liverpool. By John Plowright. London: Routledge. 1996. xv 70pp. ISBN 978-0415121408. History, 83 (272), pp. 737-738. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00094
Book Review
British women's history: A bibliographical guide
Macleod E (1998) British women's history: A bibliographical guide. Review of: British Women's History: a bibliographical guide, ed by J. Hannam, A. Hughes and P. Stafford, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, 150pp. ISBN 978-0719046520. History, 83 (269), pp. 110-110.
Book Review
The politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall
Macleod E (1998) The politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall. Review of: The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall, G. Claeys (ed.),(University Park, PA: Penn State Press., 1995). lxii 532pp. ISBN 978-0271025919. History, 83 (269), pp. 182-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.00067
Book Review
The Younger Pitt, vol 3, The consuming struggle
Macleod E (1998) The Younger Pitt, vol 3, The consuming struggle. Review of: The Younger Pitt, Volume III: The Consuming Struggle. By John Ehrman. London: Constable. 1996. xv854pp. ISBN 978-0804727549. History, 83 (269), pp. 176-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.t01-1-00066
Article
Women at War: British Women and the Debate on the Wars against Revolutionary France in the 1790s
Macleod E (1996) Women at War: British Women and the Debate on the Wars against Revolutionary France in the 1790s. Enlightenment and Dissent, 15 (1), pp. 3-32. http://www.qmulreligionandliterature.co.uk/journal-homepage/journal-archive/#1996
Article
The Responses of Scottish Churchmen to the French Revolution, 1789–1802
Vincent E (1994) The Responses of Scottish Churchmen to the French Revolution, 1789–1802. Scottish Historical Review, 73 (196), pp. 191-215. http://www.euppublishing.com.ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/toc/shr/73/2; https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.1994.73.2.191
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'The Real Grounds of the Present War': John Bowles and the French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802
Vincent E (1993) 'The Real Grounds of the Present War': John Bowles and the French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802. History, 78 (254), pp. 393-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.1993.tb02251.x
I teach British political history in the eighteenth century and gender history on the BA History honours and combined honours programmes. I contribute to first- and second-year core modules on the Making of Modern Britain, Concepts in History, and Reputations in History. At honours level I teach Gender in Britain, 1750-1930; Protests, Riots and Propaganda: Popular politics in eighteenth-century Britain; and my special subject is Britain in the Age of the American and French Revolutions, 1760-1815. I also supervise MRes in Historical Research projects and PhDs.
