Dr Clare Jackson

Trinity Hall Cambridge CB2 1TJ Tel: 01223 332511 Fax: 01223 332537 jclj1@cam.ac.uk

• History of ideas in early modern Europe, especially 17th/18th century Scotland
• Concepts of kingship, law and sovereignty in early modern Scotland
• The politics of multiple monarchy in 17th century Britain

• The history of political thought to c.1700
• The history of political thought c.1700-1890
• British political and constitutional history 1485-1750
• Lecture series: 'Eighteenth-century political thought from Montesquieu to Burke'; 'Early modern theories of Kingship'; 'Crime in early modern England'
• Co-convenor of Part I Themes & Sources: 'Utopian Writing c.1516-1789' option with Dr. Richard Serjeantson: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/rws1001/utopia/default.htm

Areas of Research Supervision

• Early modern political thought
• 17th/18th century British political history

• Co-editor, The Historical Journal (since 2004)
• Council Member, Stair Society (2000-5)

• Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690. Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas, (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2003), 258pp. For more information, see http://www.boydell.co.uk/51159303.HTM

• ‘Buchanan in Hell: Sir James Turner’s civil war royalism’, in Roger Mason and Caroline Erskine, eds., George Buchanan: political thought in early modern Europe (Ashgate: forthcoming)
• 'The political thought of the Anglo-Scottish union negotiations in 1670', in Tony Claydon and Thomas N. Corns, eds., Religion, culture and the national community, (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, forthcoming, 2009)

• 'Conceptions of nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish union debates of 1707', in Scottish Historical Review, 87 (2008), Supplement 2: The Union of 1707: new interpretations, 61-77
• (with Mark Goldie) ‘Williamite tyranny and the Whig Jacobites’, in Esther Mijers and David Onnekink eds., Redefining William III. The impact of the King-Stadholder in international context, (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007), pp. 177-99
• 'Judicial Torture, the Liberties of the Subject and Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1660-1690' in T. C. Smout ed., 'Anglo-Scottish Relations 1603-1914', Proceedings of the British Academy, 127 (2005), pp. 75-101
• 'The Rage of Parliaments: The House of Commons, 1690-1715' (Review Article), Historical Journal, 48 (2005), pp. 567-87.
• 'Assize of Error and the independence of the criminal jury in Restoration Scotland', in Scottish Archives, 10 (2004), pp. 1-25. This article was awarded the Royal Historical Society's David Berry Prize for 2004; see http://www.rhs.ac.uk/berrywin.htm.
• 'Optimism and Progress', in Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf & Iain MacCalman eds., The Enlightenment World, (Routledge: London, 2004), pp. 177-93.
• 'Revolution Principles, Ius Naturae and Ius Gentium in early Enlightenment Scotland: the contribution of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (c.1660-1726)', in Tim Hochstrasser & Peter Schröder eds., Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Contexts and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment, (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2003), pp. 107-40.
• 'Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in early modern Scotland', in Ian Hunter & David Sanders eds., Natural law and civil sovereignty: moral right and state authority in early modern political thought, (Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2002), pp. 155-69.
• 'The Political Theory of Non-Resistance in Restoration Scotland 1660-1688', in Robert von Friedeburg ed., Widerstandsrecht in der frühen Neuzeit, (Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 2001), pp. 305-28.
• 'Restoration & Union', in John Haywood & Simon Hall eds., The Penguin atlas of British and Irish history, (Penguin: Harmondsworth, 2001), pp. 138-41.
• 'Restoration to Revolution: 1660-1690', in Glenn Burgess ed., The New British History. Founding a Modern State 1603-1715, (Tauris: London, 1999), pp. 194-216.
• 'The paradoxical virtue of the historical romance: Sir George Mackenzie's Aretina and the Civil Wars' in John Young ed., Celtic dimensions of the British civil wars, (John Donald: Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 205-25.