Publications

Books

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

Articles and chapters

• ‘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).
• 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).
• ‘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.

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.
  
  

Magazine articles

• ‘The Highland Hogmanay’, BBC Countryfile MagazineLink opens in a new window (Jan. 2021).
• ‘Scottish Ghosts,’ History ScotlandLink opens in a new window (Jan.-Feb. 2020).
• ‘Georgian Ghost Hoaxes’, BBC History MagazineLink opens in a new window (July 2019).
  
  

Blog posts

• ‘Everyday encounters with supernatural forces in early modern BritainLink opens in a new window’, The British Academy blog (Jul. 2019).
• ‘Ghosts in Enlightenment ScotlandLink opens in a new window’, Proofed (Oct. 2018).

 

Reviews

Books reviewed for History Scotland, Intellectual History Review, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Preternature and Scottish Historical Review.