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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David M Anderson FBA

History and politics of eastern and southern Africa; environmental history of East Africa since 1800; histories of colonial and post-colonial violence, conflict, and insurrection

David M Anderson FBA

Professor Alvin Jackson FBA

Modern Irish and British history, especially the Irish and Scottish unions; the histories of union states and unionisms.

Alvin Jackson FBA

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