Jim Reilly
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
MLitt Scottish Historical Studies, University of St Andrews.
MA (Hons) History, University of St Andrews.
Undergraduate teaching
Early Modern History: A Connected World (HIST08034)
Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages (HIST08035)
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City (HIST08036)
Research summary
My research interests are in the religious and cultural history of early modern Scotland. My PhD thesis considers the commemorative culture of Scottish Presbyterians in the generation after the Revolution of 1688–9: focusing on how memories of religious persecution were communicated and contested.
Papers delivered
'Constructing a suffering generation: memories of religious persecution in the second-generation life writing of Scottish Presbyterians.' Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Northern Early Modern Network Conference, Edinburgh. 11–12 June, 2024.
'Collecting sufferings: Robert Wodrow and the contested memory of religious persecution in early modern Scotland.' Paper presented at Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500–1850), Aberystwyth. 30–31 May 2024.
'The contested memory of religious persecution in the early modern Scottish parish.' Paper presented at the Twenty-Second Warwick Symposium on Parish Research — “Parish Memory”, Warwick. 11 May 2024.
'Uncovering popular memories of seventeenth century religious persecution in the papers of Robert Wodrow.' Paper presented at the University of Edinburgh History PhD Conference, Edinburgh. 16–17 May, 2023.