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, Charles II, James VII, James II, Covenanters, ballads, progresses, communication, 1679 Bothwell, protest, Union 1707, Scottish Privy Council, official records, archival materiality, letters
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- lauraidoak@gmail.com
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Historian of political culture and popular politics. I study how people at all levels of society argued about authority and government.
Specialising in late sixteenth- to early eighteenth- centuries, I ask questions like: How did people in power communicate with those they ruled ? What was the reaction of ordinary people? And how did they themselves participate in the political turbulence of this formative early modern period?
I have published on political theatre, public executions, and proclamations, as well as articles focussing on dissident female radicals in seventeenth-century Scotland. 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, ‘Makers, Mistakes, and Miscellaneous Matter: materiality and the Scottish Privy Council Records, c.1688-1708, Parliaments Estates Representation (2025)
- 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
- https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-post-newcastle/20241208/281921663626210?srsltid=AfmBOoqoOVYAnMZf2SncS8afwBlEPirEhuP7xLpMPYsk2p4QeIlf3nYJ
- Social Media
- @lauraidoak
- Country Focus
- Scotland; The British Isles
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Government, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Women
