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Assimilation Aborted: Henry Clerk and the Limits of Anglo-Scottish Integration in the Age of Union

Assimilation Aborted: Henry Clerk and the Limits of Anglo-Scottish Integration in the Age of Union This article deploys micro-historical analysis to understand an example of abortive diaspora among Scots who failed to make it as immigrants in early modern England. Henry Clerk was the son of a middle-ranking Midlothian baronet who made a doomed effort to build a new life for himself in London between 1698 and 1702. A series of dozens of surviving letters between Clerk and his family members in Scotland allow us to trace his migration experience in unusual detail. This evidence makes his case an excellent candidate for micro-historical reconstruction, and in undertaking such an exercise this article seeks to ask what the nature and circumstances of his failure can tell us about the wider process of migrant assimilation in early modern Britain, as well as the challenges confronted by individuals seeking to make a new life in a new location. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Edinburgh University Press

Assimilation Aborted: Henry Clerk and the Limits of Anglo-Scottish Integration in the Age of Union

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
ISSN
1748-538X
eISSN
1755-1749
DOI
10.3366/jshs.2018.0245
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Abstract

This article deploys micro-historical analysis to understand an example of abortive diaspora among Scots who failed to make it as immigrants in early modern England. Henry Clerk was the son of a middle-ranking Midlothian baronet who made a doomed effort to build a new life for himself in London between 1698 and 1702. A series of dozens of surviving letters between Clerk and his family members in Scotland allow us to trace his migration experience in unusual detail. This evidence makes his case an excellent candidate for micro-historical reconstruction, and in undertaking such an exercise this article seeks to ask what the nature and circumstances of his failure can tell us about the wider process of migrant assimilation in early modern Britain, as well as the challenges confronted by individuals seeking to make a new life in a new location.

Journal

Journal of Scottish Historical StudiesEdinburgh University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2018

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