Dr Laura Doak

An historian of ordinary people and their politics in the early modern British Isles, Laura is interested in riots, rebellions, print, propaganda, and subversion… and any other way that people in the past found to share their views about who should have authority.

Watch this space! Laura is currently writing a book on the 1679 Bothwell Rebellion. More news will be shared soon via social media. A fuller list of Laura’s previous publications can be found here.

Laura completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2020. Her thesis was titled ‘On Street and Scaffold: People and Political Culture in Restoration Scotland, c.1678-1685’ and studied public executions, rebel declarations, royal proclamations, protests, and royal processions… among other things! Since then, she has worked as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow on the Scottish Privy Council Project and has taught at both the University of Glasgow and the University of Otago. Laura is an ECR Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and also serves on the Council for the Scottish History Society.