Tag: history of universities
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Finding Scottish University Graduates in Early Modern Records
Inspired by a recent query from one of my postgraduates, I thought there might be some value in providing a quick tutorial in how to locate the academic backgrounds of early modern Scots with university degrees. Let us suppose you find a Scot in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century document with the honorific “M[aste]r”. Unlike its more…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 