Professor Charles Withers FBA

Geography Scotland History of Geography Cultural Geography
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Geography

Current post

Ogilvie Chair of Geography and Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh; Geographer Royal for Scotland

Past appointments

Other Institutions Geographer Royal for Scotland

2015 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Historical Geography

1994 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh

1994 -

University of Edinburgh Ogilvie Chair of Geography and Professor of Historical Geography

1994 -

University of Gloucestershire Lecturer to Professor / Associate Dean

1980 - 1994

University of Gloucestershire

1980 - 1994

Publications

Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900 1998

Scotland: Mapping the Nation 2011

Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason 2007

Geography and Science in Britain 1831-1939: A Study of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2010

Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981 1984

Geography, Science and National Identity: Scotland since 1520 2001

Geography and Revolution 2005

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