On Monday morning I start into final year at the unearthly hour of 11am. One of the ‘perks’ of being in final year is having to write a dissertation (8,000 words I think). Technically you can do your dissertation on anything you want, but pretty much everybody I think does it on one of the modules they study. One of the modules I’ve chosen this year is ‘Presbyterians in Ulster, 1690-1840’ so hopefully I can do my dissertation on it (although most people chose to do their dissertation on a module they’re doing in the first semester, and this is a second semester one). However as long as the dude running the module (the head of the history department no less) agrees then I can do it. Which brings me to why I’m posting this here – I would be grateful if people could suggest a few titles / areas of interest for it. (I don’t know quite how specific they have to be – but it can’t have been done before). An obvious one (from an ‘RP till I die’ perspective) would probably be to look at the introduction and rise of man-made hymns during this time. But it doesn’t have to be RP related. So please suggest a few, either in the comments or email me (steve at this address) as I’ll need to have a few ideas when I email this boy (but I don’t need to do this for a good while yet so you have a bit of time to think about it). Thanks :-)
Pilgrimage reportage will resume shortly…
let me know how that goes :i assume you are doing well laddy :-p
I know this is beyond your time period Stephen, but Whitefield College of the Bible (Gary’s old home) have published a seven volume series of writings on the 1859 Revival; it may be worth checking this out in case their is anything relevant to the period before 1840. I found out about this through John Gowan’s booklist which arrived at my house yesterday; it would’t be a bad idea to check the contents for yourself, as every chapter (and its author) of every volume is printed in the advertisement.