The Scottish Privy Council Project (SPCP) began in October 2020 and launched this website in October 2024. The SPCP is a collaborative project between the Universities of Stirling and Dundee centred on the extant records of the Scottish Privy Council between 1692 and 1708.
The Scottish Privy Council Project (SPCP) has, and will have into the future, two main objectives. The first is the creation, updating and maintenance of this database made from the official manuscript records of the Scottish Privy Council from 1692 to 1707. The second is carrying out research into the council, one of the most important branches of Scottish government in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on the years from the Revolution of 1688/89 to the Union of 1707 and the council's abolition in 1708. Research themes include the council's institutional history, linkages to national and local institutions, judicial activities, and the body's social, religious and political significance in the period. See our bibliography for our most recent publications and those by ourselves and others of relevance to the history of the Scottish Privy Council.
'The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh; c. 1693 by John Slezer (c.1650-1717). © The National Library of Scotland