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Bachelors History University of Oxford
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According to Wikipedia, Michael Lynch, FRHistS, FRSE, FSA Scot is a retired Scottish historian and a leading expert in the history of the Scottish Reformation and pre-modern urbanisation in the Scottish kingdom. In 2010, five years after his retirement, he was described by one reviewer as 'one of the most influential historians in Scotland of the last thirty years', whose work has been characterised by an 'ability to bring ecclesiastical, cultural and urban perspectives to traditional Scottish political and governmental histories', as well as the ability 'to clarify a difficult theory within a deceptively simple phrase'.

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Michael Lynch 's Published Works

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The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (1998) (218)
Harvey Sacks's Primitive Natural Science (1994) (113)
Counting Things and People: The Practices and Politics of Counting (2009) (87)
Taking Account of the Hostile Native: Plausible Deniability and the Production of Conventional History in the Iran-Contra Hearings (1989) (57)
Conversation and Cognition: ‘My memory has been shredded’: a non-cognitivist investigation of ‘mental’ phenomena (2005) (45)
The Scottish medieval town (1989) (42)
Image and identity : the making and re-making of Scotland through the ages (1999) (35)
Social critique and the logic of description (1990) (22)
Rabies in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland. (2004) (17)
Do we need a general theory of social problems (1993) (17)
The Early Modern Town in Scotland (2021) (15)
Ports 1540–1700 (2000) (14)
The Reign of James VI (2001) (12)
In defense of dada-driven analysis (1991) (11)
The new energy crisis: separating threats from hysteria (2002) (9)
PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED? PERSPECTIVES ON THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION (1994) (6)
Voting Machinery, Counting and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election (2005) (5)
Access to History (2008) (5)
The Scottish State and its Borderlands, 1567-1625 (2000) (5)
Still emerging after all these years (2011) (5)
An Introduction to Modern British History 1900-1999 (2001) (5)
The Manufacture of Scottish History (1993) (3)
James VI: Universal King? (2000) (3)
An introduction to nineteenth-century British history, 1800-1914 (1999) (2)
Production History (2012) (1)
Catholicism, History and Culture: A Dawsonian Synthesis (2008) (1)
The Beatles and Ireland (2009) (1)
THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF SELECTING VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES (2012) (1)
In Search of the Scottish Reformation (2002) (1)
Memory in Testimony (2012) (0)
From Futian to the Long March: 1930–35 (2017) (0)
Mao the Communist and Nationalist: 1921–30 (2017) (0)
The Yanan years: 1935–43 (2017) (0)
Ireland and England, 1798-1922 (1995) (0)
Exploring the Sky of the Avon Hills (2012) (0)
Stories and Master Narratives (2012) (0)
The History and Theology of Calvinism, by Curt Daniel (2022) (0)
Emperor of the Blue Ants: 1950–62 (2017) (0)
The Truth-Finding Engine (2012) (0)
The Rennaisance in Scotland (1994) (0)
Years of triumph: 1943–50 (2017) (0)
The Documentary Method of Interrogation (2012) (0)
The cult of Mao and the Cultural Revolution: 1962–76 (2017) (0)
The Ceremonial of Truth (2012) (0)
Aimless years, 1889–1919 (2012) (0)
Scotland since 1750 (2001) (0)
Conclusion: A Civics Lesson in the Logic of Sleaze (2012) (0)
New energy and the geopolitics of the future (2018) (0)
The British Empire (2005) (0)
TROTSKY: Angel of Enlightenment or Frustrated Dictator? (1999) (0)
Scotland under Morton 1572-80 (1984) (0)
The Sincere Liar (2012) (0)
Part I The Creation of a College (2019) (0)
The Transformation of the King's Mountain Victors (2006) (0)
Dunbar, Reforming the Scottish Church (2005) (0)

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