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Mary Young Collection
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Mary Young Collection

  • UR-SF 67
  • Collection
  • 1985-2009
Research papers, including copies of maps and censuses etc., relating to Dr Young's dissertation and thesis, subsequent publications and teaching

Dr Mary Young

PhD Thesis

Complete original copy of thesis and colour plates used. Also includes examiners' and supervisors' notes, comments and corrections. Brief summary of thesis and letter from Prof C McKean and a letter from the University of Dundee Registry examinations office to Mary Young,granting her a PhD.

Publications and research

Publications and research, notably Prequel" Dundee: Renaissance to Enlightenment, Edited by C. McKean, B. Harris and C. A Whatley - draft of chapter 3 "Battered but Unbowed - Dundee during the Seventeenth Century by K. J. Cullen, C. A Whatley and Mary Young.

Agricultural Review

Article titled 'King William's Ill Years: new evidence on the impact of scarcity and harvest failure during the crisis of the 1690s on Tayside' co-authored by Mary Young. The Agricultural History Review booklet (2007) featuring article written by Mary Young titled 'Scottish crop yields in the second half of the seventeenth century: evidence from the Mains of Castle Lyon in the Carse of Gowrie'.

Dundee chapter draft

"Prequel" Dundee: Renaissance to Enlightenment, Edited by C. McKean, B. Harris and C. A Whatley. Draft of chapter 3 "Battered but Unbowed - Dundee during the Seventeenth Century by K. J. Cullen, C. A Whatley and Mary Young.

Publications

Mary Young. Cullen, Whatley and Young article "King William III Years: new evidence on the impact of scarcity and the harvest failure during the crisis of the 1690s on Tayside"(October 2006). The Agricultural History Review, Volume 55, containing Mary Young's "Scottish crop yields in the second half of the seventeenth century: evidence from the Mains of Castle Lyon in the Carse of Gowrie" (2007).

Taxes, Carse of Gowrie

Carse of Gowrie Parishes: summaries of taxes for various places in the Carse of Gowrie, including handwritten explanatory notes.

Articles, notes and hand-drawn maps

Hand-drawn maps of Carse of Gowrie parishes, draft chapter from dissertation, Postgraduate essay titled "Perceptions of Identity, Interpretations of Art; Linda Colley and Sir David Wilkie's 'Chelsea Pensioners'".

Broad research

General research on a range of topics, notably biographical/novel about Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore.

Katharine Read

Chapter 2 "'The necessity there is for staying a while in Italy...' Katharine Read and The Scots in Italy". Includes Introduction and Methodology: Katharine Read Self Portrait (Undated, Private Collection).

Errol

Photocopied sources relating to the areas of Ballingdean, Duncan, Hay of Leyes, Inchmartine, and Errol.

Countess of Strathmore

Biographical/novel about Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore, by Wendy Moore. Newspaper article, Sunday 29th July 2007, The Times, "Sex Secrets of the Queen's ancestors". Also article in Journal of Medical Biography, 'The surgeon, the Countess, her husband and his lover: John Hunter (1728-93) and the Countess of Strathmore (1749-1800) by Wendy Moore.

"Talks" Correspondence

Talk notes and correspondence regarding talks for various groups and events including Wonder Women Event (29/03/06), Angus Members' Centre (16/03/06), Kirriemuir Townhouse 400 celebrations (2/09/04), University of Dundee Research Seminar (2002-2003), Carse of Gowrie Young Farmers (12/01/03), Abernyte Heritage Group Millennium Walk Project (18/05/99), The Great Carse Treasure Hunt (9/06/99), Association of Women Graduates (25/03/00).

Talks, lectures and Presentations

Talks, lectures and presentations for various groups and events including Inchture & Kinnaird Woman's Group (2003), Scottish Women's History Network Conference and AGM (8/12/01), Abernyte Heritage Oral History Project - Voicing the Past.

Teaching records

Material relating to teaching ranging from Women, Culture and Society to University of Dundee History modules
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