Laura A. M. Stewart

Laura A. M. Stewart, FRHistS, FSA Scot, is a historian specialising in early modern British history, especially Scottish political culture, Anglo-Scottish relations and the Civil War. She is Professor in Early Modern History at the University of York.

Career[]

Stewart completed a Master of Arts degree at the University of St Andrews before moving to the University of Edinburgh to complete a Master of Science degree by research; she stayed there to carry out doctoral studies, and her PhD was awarded in 2003 for her thesis "Politics and religion in Edinburgh, 1617–53". She was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow from 2005 to 2007, and spent ten years teaching at Birkbeck, University of London, before moving to the University of York in 2016,^[1] and being made Professor in Early Modern History at York in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Her book Rethinking the Scottish Revolution (2016) won the American Historical Association's in 2017^[2] and was shortlisted for the Longman–History Today Awards in the same year.^[3][4][5]

Stewart's research focuses on early modern British history, especially Scottish political culture, Anglo-Scottish relations and the Civil War.^[4]

Publications[]

• Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617–1653 (Brill, 2006).
• Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637–1651 (Oxford University Press, 2016).
• (Co-author with Janay Nugent) Union and Revolution: Scotland and Beyond, 1625–1745, The New History of Scotland series (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, 2020).

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