Publications
Books
- Co-edited with Julian Goodare, The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020).
- Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019.
Articles and chapters
- Co-authored with Thomas Ahnert, ‘Scotland and the European Republic of Letters around 1700’, in Alexander Broadie (ed.), Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (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 Period (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
- ‘A Protestant Purgatory?: Visions of an Intermediate State in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, Scottish Historical Review 97:2 (Oct. 2018), 153-86.
Scholarly editions
- ‘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 16 (Woodbridge: SHS, 2020). Based on a winning entry to the 2016 Rosebery Prize.
Magazine articles
- ‘The Highland Hogmanay’, BBC Countryfile Magazine (Jan. 2021).
- ‘Scottish Ghosts,’ History Scotland (Jan.-Feb. 2020).
- ‘Georgian Ghost Hoaxes’, BBC History Magazine (July 2019).
Blog posts
- ‘Everyday encounters with supernatural forces in early modern Britain’, The British Academy blog (Jul. 2019).
- ‘Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland’, Proofed (Oct. 2018).
Reviews
Books reviewed for History Scotland, Intellectual History Review, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Preternature and Scottish Historical Review.
