Participant Info
- First Name
- Laura
- Last Name
- Doak
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- ldoak001@dundee.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Dundee
- Website URL
- Keywords
- seventeenth century, early modern, Scottish history, British history, political culture, print, proclamations, executions, performance, progresses, political participation, petitions, rebel declarations, crowds, protestations, James duke of York and Albany, Charles II, James VII, James II, Covenanters, ballads, progresses, psalms, communication, Bothwell Bridge, protest, intertextuality, multimedia, debate, Glorious Revolution, Union 1707, Scottish Privy Council
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- lauraidoak@gmail.com
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of political culture and popular political participation. The big questions I aim to address are;
- How did people in power communicate with those they ruled during the early modern period? Did this change with the introduction of new technologies, like mass print? Or adapt to meet new cultural trends and changing tastes?
- What was the reaction of ordinary people? And how did they themselves participate in the political turbulence of the early modern period? What does their participation in political debate and consumption of political culture say about the nature of power across the seventeenth- and early-eighteenth century British Isles?
I am also interested in Scottish identity and public history.
I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2020 with a doctoral thesis titled: “On Street and Scaffold: The People and Political Culture in Restoration Scotland, c.1678-1685”. Now based at the University of Dundee, I am currently a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Scottish Privy Council Project.
- Recent Publications
Recent examples of my work are available online;
- Laura I. Doak, ‘Rediscovering the Voices of ‘Fanatick Wives’: The Cultural Authority of Covenanting Women in Restoration Scotland’, Scottish Historical Review (2023).
- Laura I. Doak, ‘Progresses, Print, and ‘Politick Managers’: Performing the Succession of James II & VII, 1679-1682′, Royal Studies Journal (2021)
- Laura I. Doak, ‘Militant Women and ‘National’ Community: The Execution of Isabel Alison and Marion Harvie, Edinburgh 1681′ in Journal of Northern Renaissance (2020)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @lauraidoak
- Country Focus
- Scotland and the British Isles
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Government, Local & Regional, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Women
