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Professor Christopher Smout FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1988
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850

Current post

Historiographer Royal in Scotland

Past appointments

University of St Andrews Director, Institute of Environmental History

1991 - 2000

University of St Andrews Professor of Scottish History

1980 - 1991

University of Edinburgh Professor of Economic History

1972 - 1979

Publications

History of the Scottish people, 1560-1830 1969

Victorian values (_PBA_ 78, 1992)

Century of the Scottish people, 1830-1950 1986

Nature contested 2000

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Professor David Edgerton FBA

Global history of technology, science and production; political and economic history of the United Kingdom; history of warfare and militarism, including the economic and technological history of war; history of invention, innovation and research policy, especially in the United Kingdom

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Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA

Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories

Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA (credit Swiss Radio and Television Service)

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