Publications

Engagement initiatives

• As project lead, with Imogen Knox, Stars, Sieves and Stories, an interactive online exhibition about early modern divination (2024).
• As project lead, with a student team, Witch Hunt 1649, a pair of educational card games available for purchase, with all proceeds going to charity, or free download (2022).

Monographs

• Ghosts in Enlightenment ScotlandLink opens in a new window (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019.

Edited volumes

• Co-edited with Alasdair Raffe, The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, 1560-1707: Essays in Honour of Julian GoodareLink opens in a new window (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025).
• Co-edited with Julian Goodare, The Supernatural in Early Modern ScotlandLink opens in a new window (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). Runner-up for the Katharine Briggs Award 2021

Journal articles

• Co-authored with Adam N. Coward, ‘“Original Memoirs of apparitions & spirits in Wales” (c.1738): Publishing on the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century’Link opens in a new window, Folklore 136:2 (Jun. 2025), 291-313.
• ‘Bodies of Earth and Air: Corporeality and Spirituality in Pre-Modern British Narratives of the UndeadLink opens in a new window’, Journal of Medieval History 48 (Apr. 2022).
• ‘The Evolution of Haunted Space in ScotlandLink opens in a new window’, Gothic Studies 24:1 (Mar. 2022).
• ‘A Protestant Purgatory?: Visions of an Intermediate State in Eighteenth-Century ScotlandLink opens in a new window’, Scottish Historical Review 97:2 (Oct. 2018), 153-86.

Chapters

• Co-authored with Alasdair Raffe, ‘The State, Society and Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: Current Debates and the Influence of Julian Goodare’, in Alasdair Raffe and Martha McGill (eds), The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, 1560-1707.
• As lead author, with Luke Holloway, ‘Describing the Inconceivable in Eighteenth-Century Methodist and Quaker Visions of the Afterlife’, in Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler (eds), Space, Time, and Experience in the European Eschatological Imagination, 1400-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2024).
• ‘Seeking the Lord, Seeking a Husband: Navigating Marginality in the Diary of Rachel Brown (1736-38)’, in Allan Kennedy and Susanne Weston (eds), Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024).
• Co-authored with Thomas Ahnert, ‘Scotland and the European Republic of Letters around 1700’, in Alexander Broadie (ed.), Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth CenturyLink opens in a new window (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
• ‘Angels in Early Modern Scotland’, in Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland.
• Co-authored with Alasdair Raffe, ‘The Uses of Providence in Early Modern Scotland’, in Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland.
• Co-authored with Julian Goodare, ‘Exploring the Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland’, in Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland.
• ‘Angels, Devils, and Discernment in Early Modern Scotland’, in Michelle D. Brock, Richard Raiswell and David Winter (eds), Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern PeriodLink opens in a new window (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Scholarly editions

• With Luke Holloway, ‘The Conversion of a Cork Candle-Maker: An Account by Hester Ann Rogers (1788)Link opens in a new window’, Wesley and Methodist Studies 14:2 (Jun. 2022).
• ‘Angels, Ghosts and Journeys to the Afterlife: The “very rare and Memorable” Stories of James Cowan (c.1707-1710)’, 5,000-word edition with 11,000-word introduction, in Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 16Link opens in a new window (Woodbridge: SHS, 2020). Based on a winning entry to the 2016 Rosebery Prize.