Karin Bowie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society where she received the David Berry prize in 2015. She is the author of Scottish Public Opinion in the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707 (2007) and articles in Scottish Affairs, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and the Scotsman.

1. Protestations; 2. Petitions; 3. Oaths; 4. Public communications; 5. The inclinations of the people; 6. The sense of the nation.