Dr Kirsteen MacKenzie
Dr Kirsteen MacKenzie
The University of Aberdeen
School of Divinity, History & Philosophy
Research Fellow
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kirsteen.mackenzie@abdn.ac.uk
Research Fellow
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Biography
Graduated from the University of Aberdeen:
- MA joint honours in History and Politics
- PhD History
I am also a member of various historical associations including:
- Royal Historical Society
- The Scottish History Society
- The Historical Association
- The Cromwell Association
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Research Interests
- Early Modern Britain and Ireland, the three Stuart kingdoms during the seventeenth century.Â
- Presbyterian Church government and the Covenants 1649-1660.
- The English Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660.
- Plantation of Ireland during the seventeenth century
- Print culture in Britain and Ireland during the seventeenth centuryÂ
- The Highlands during the Early Modern period
- Personal experiences of Jacobitism during the eighteenth century.
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Current Research
- Currently preparing a monograph based on my doctoral thesis on Presbyterian Church government and the Covenants in the three kingdoms during the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
       Also working on articles on the following subjects:
- Cromwellian diplomacy.
- Personal religious experience during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Plantation in Ireland during the seventeenth century.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- MacKenzie, KM. '˜The Conundrum of Marginality: Mercurius Politicus, Order and the Politics of Glencairn’s Rising’'. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.
- MacKenzie, KM. (in press). 'A Glimpse Behind the Censor: Baillie and the Covenanting Printing Press'. Notes and Queries.
[Online] DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjs263 - MacKenzie, KM. 'The Great Fire of Glasgow'. History Scotland.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2011). 'Restoring the Nation?: Hamiltion and the Politics of the National Covenant'. International Review of Scottish Studies, vol 36, no. 1.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2009). 'The Waiting Game: Cromwellian Diplomacy, the Foreign Experience'. Cromwelliana, vol Series 2, no. No.6, pp. 95-110.
Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
- MacKenzie, KM. (in press). ''Oliver Cromwell: God’s Warrior and the English Revolution By Ian Gentles, London and New York, Palgrave pp. 263 £14.19 (Paperback). Selling Cromwell’s Wars: Media, Empire and Godly Warfare, 1650-1658 By Nicole Greenspan, London and Vermont, Pickering and Chatto, V pp. 247 £60.00 (Hardcover)’. ['. Parliamentary History.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2012). 'Geoffrey Smith, Royalist Agents, Conspiritors and Spies: their role in the British Civil Wars 1640-1660’ Reviews in History'. Reviews in History, no. 1258.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2012). '˜Allan Macinnes The British Confederate: Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll c.1607-1661 Edinburgh, John Donald 2011'. The Seventeenth Century, vol 27, no. 2, pp. 230-254.
[Online] DOI: 10.7227/TSC.27.2.6 - MacKenzie, KM. (2012). '˜Bernard Capp England’s Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum 1649-1660’'. Reviews in History.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2010). 'William P. Kelly and John R. Young eds. Scotland and the Ulster Plantations: Explorations in the British Settlements of Stuart Ireland. Ulster and Scotland 8. Dublin; Four Courts Press, 2009’'. International Review of Scottish Studies, vol 35, pp. 163-165.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2010). 'Northern Views: A review of M. Newton, Warriors of the Word (Birlinn, 2009)'. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- MacKenzie, KM. (2008). 'Oliver Cromwell and the Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms'. P Little (ed.), in: Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
- MacKenzie, KM. (2005). 'Loyalty to King or Covenant Retained: Presbyterians in the Three Nations and the English Commonwealth 1649-1653'. S Alcobia-Murphy & J Archibald (eds), in: Beyond the Anchoring Grounds: More Cross-Currents in Irish Scottish Studies. vol. 14, Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics, vol. 14, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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