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Mary Young Collection
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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'.

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.

Correspondence, poems and employment history

Collection of written poems by Mary Young. Sheet music titled 'Dr Mary Young of Oakgarth'. Christmas card 1996. Mary Young CV/experience and employment History. Letter documenting Mary Young's life. Correspondence with the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Files titled 'Perthshire Machinery Ring' and 'Wine Club' which Mary Young contributed to.

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.

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.

Errol

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

General Teaching

General teaching including for example materials relating to Palaeography module, Latin module and 1st year MA History

Howff Women

Research notes on Howff Women, images and copy of published article 'Women of the Dundee Howff' by Marion Wynne-Davies.

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).

Latin Module

Introductory papers describing Latin module unit 1 to 6 descriptive & exercises.

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

Module Material

Handouts, correspondence and teaching material for various modules including Palaeography and Reading Seventeenth Century Scotland.

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.
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