Current Research/Role
I am a Research Fellow on the House of Lords 1660–1832 section, having joined the History in 2026. Before that, I worked for few years as a Senior Researcher at the Scottish Parliament and taught at various universities across the United Kingdom and Ireland. I completed my doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. I am currently researching and writing biographies for the next phase of the project, covering the Lords 1715–1790.
Research Interests
My wider research interests include politics and religion in Britain and Ireland in the long eighteenth century. I have a particular interest in religious toleration, political management in Hanoverian Scotland, Presbyterian communities in eighteenth-century Dublin, and the role of ‘Commonwealth’ thought in eighteenth-century oppositional politics. My monograph on the politics of religious toleration in Scotland after the Revolution of 1688–90 was published in 2026. I have also written articles and chapters on the role of the House of Lords as the supreme appellate court in the eighteenth century, attempts at religious comprehension in Scotland during the early 1690s, and the ‘Country Party’ in the pre-Union Scottish Parliament.
Publications
Book
The Politics of Religious Toleration in Scotland, 1689–1714 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2026)
Chapters in Books
‘The Country Party and the Scottish Parliament, 1698–1704’, in M. McGill and A. Raffe (eds.), The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560–1707: Essays in Honour of Julian Goodare (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025), pp. 108–26.
‘The House of Lords and Religious Toleration in Scotland: James Greenshields’s Appeal, 1709–11’, in R. McKitterick, C. Methuen, and A. Spicer (eds.), Studies in Church History Volume 56: The Church and Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 320–37.
Journal Articles
‘Religious Comprehension in Scotland, 1689–1695’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 74 (2023), pp. 774–800.