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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Janet Browne FBA

History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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Professor Stefan Collini FBA

Intellectual history and literary criticism

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