Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Figures and Tables

pp v-v

Acknowledgements

pp vi-vi

H. T. Dickinson: An Appreciation

pp vii-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - Parliament and Political Cultures

pp 7-8

1 - ‘The Press Ought to be Open to All’: From the Liberty of Conscience to the Liberty of the Press

pp 9-25

2 - ‘Could the Scots Become True British?’ The Prelude to the Scottish Peerage Bill, 1706–16

pp 26-38

3 - Parliament and Church Reform: Off and On the Agenda

pp 39-57

4 - Liberty, Property and the Post-Culloden Acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd

pp 58-72

5 - Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765–1800

pp 73-86

Part II - Beyond Liberty and Property

pp 87-88

6 - Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State

pp 89-102

7 - ‘The Wisest and Most Beneficial Schemes’: William Ogilvie, Radical Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment

pp 103-117

8 - Thomas Spence and James Harrington: A Case Study in Influence

pp 118-130

9 - Thomas Spence, Children's Literature and ‘Learning … Debauched by Ambition’

pp 131-146

Part III - The Long and Wide 1790s

pp 147-148

10 - British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham

pp 149-162

11 - Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794

pp 163-175

12 - The Vilification of Thomas Paine: Constructing a Folk Devil in the 1790s

pp 176-193

13 - Nelson's Circles: Networking in the Navy during the French Wars

pp 194-206

14 - The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir

pp 207-223

Selected List of H. T. Dickinson's Publications, 1964–2015

pp 224-232

Notes on the Contributors

pp 233-234

Index

pp 235-240