Dr Alasdair Raffe

PhD, MSc, BA
Lecturer in History

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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 324 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 4601 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 alasdair.raffe@northumbria.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Biography

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Alasdair studied Modern History and Politics at Oxford before completing his MSc and PhD in Scottish History at Edinburgh.  His thesis was entitled ‘Religious Controversy and Scottish Society, c. 1679-1714’.  In 2007, he moved to Durham University to work as Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project examining ‘British State Prayers, Fasts and Thanksgivings, 1540s-1940s’.  He joined Northumbria University in 2011.

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Qualifications

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PhD in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, 2008
MSc by Research, Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, 2004
BA (Hons), Modern History and Politics, University of Oxford, 2003

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Teaching Interests

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Alasdair teaches on a wide range of survey and specialist modules.

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Research Interests

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Alasdair is a historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.  He has published several articles on aspects of Scottish religious controversy and politics, and is writing a book entitled The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714.  He is also interested in comparisons between the religious cultures of the British Isles, and religious migration and intellectual exchanges.

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Research Students

Alasdair welcomes enquiries from students considering postgraduate research in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious or Scottish history.   

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Publications

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Chapters and Articles:
‘1707, 2007 and the unionist turn in Scottish history’, Historical Journal, 53 (2010), 1071-83.

‘Presbyterians and episcopalians: the formation of confessional cultures in Scotland, 1660–1715’, English Historical Review, 125 (2010), 570–98.

‘Presbyterianism, secularization and Scottish politics after the revolution of 1688–90’, Historical Journal, 53 (2010), 317–37.

‘Nature’s scourges: the natural world and special prayers, fasts and thanksgivings, 1543–1866’, in Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon (eds.), Gods Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World, Studies in Church History, 46 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010), 237–47.

‘Episcopalian polemic, the London printing press and Anglo-Scottish divergence in the 1690s’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 26 (2006), 23–41.

‘Propaganda, religious controversy and the Williamite revolution in Scotland’, Dutch Crossing, 29 (2005), 21–42.

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