Professor Sir Thomas Devine FBA

History of the Scottish people at home and abroad since the sixteenth century
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1994

Current post

Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography, School of History,Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography, School of History,Classics and Archaeology

2015 -

University of Edinburgh Personal Senior Research Professor of History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

2011 -

University of Edinburgh Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, and Director, The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh

2005 - 2011

University of Aberdeen Research Professor and Director, Research Institute of Scottish and Irish Studies

1998 -

University of Strathclyde Deputy Principal

1994 - 1997

University of Strathclyde Director of Research Centre in Scottish History

1992 - 1998

Publications

The great Highland famine 1988

The tobacco lords 1975

The Scottish nation 1999

Scotland's Empire 2003

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Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA

The social & cultural history of the English eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, with a focus of categories such as 'law' & 'labour' in the making of seflhood & identity

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Professor Mark Harrison FBA

Economic history of Russia and the Soviet Union; the two world wars; defence and security; fighting, cheating, stealing, lying and spying

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Professor Arne Westad FBA

Modern history of China; 20th century international & transnatioanl history; Cold War history; comparative history of revolutions & political change; the public practice of history

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