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Press Coverage

 

Traditions of emigration: The Irish habit of going away - The Irish Times, 2 November 2011

 

War stories will now live forever - Evening News, 15 September 2011

 

Darkness and Enlightenment - Sunday Herald, 31 July 2011

Should we mobilise the law to police sectarian attitudes? - Scottish Review, 9 June 2011


Europe joins sporran legion of caber tossers - Scotland on Sunday, 22 May 2011

 

Apr 2011 - Prof Tom Devine's comments on the recent sectarian controversies surrounding the 'bombs in the post' outrage were widely noticed and shown across the globe in the following sample of newspapers (and over 150 others) and other TV and radio media outlets:

Associated Press, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, Canadian Press, Pretoria News Weekend, The Nation (Thailand), Sunday Herald, Scotland on Sunday, Irish Times, Irish Post, BBC One News, BBC Radio 4's PM Programme, BBC Radio 5 Live Drive, BBC Radio Scotland Reporting Scotland, BBC Radio 4 Six O'clock News, BBC One Northern Ireland Newsline, ITN News at Ten, BBC2 Newsnight Scotland, BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight, ITN Morning News, BBC Radio 4 The World at One, BBC Radio 4 Money Box Live, BBC Radio Scotland Newsdrive


Tom Devine - The SRB Interview - Scottish Review of Books, 14 August 2010

 

A nation's shame: leading historian says sorry for failing to confront Scots' role in slave trade - The Herald Scotland, 22 March 2010

 

Scottish history with no brave heart - The Sunday Times, 8 November 2009


Thank Calvin for great Scots minds
- The Times, 10 August 2009

 

Protestant Reformation a boost to the Enlightenment, says Tom Devine - The Times, 10 August 2009

 

Tom Devine: The exile files - Scotland on Sunday, 19 July 2009

 

Scotland's 'victim history' is challenged - Scotland on Sunday, 19 July 2009

 

New migration degree for city - Edinburgh Evening News, 2 April 2009

 

Historian dishes out blast from the past - Edinburgh Evening News, 30 January 2009

 

A gallery of great Scots - The Guardian, 25 November 2008

 

University of Edinburgh launches million pound Centre for Diaspora studies - The Journal, 9 November 2008

 

What was secret of our own roamin' empire? - The Scotsman, 31 October 2008


The 'hard men' of Empire who made up the dark side of Scottish diaspora - The Times, 29 October 2008

 

Keeping young Scots in ignorance of our own history is a national disgrace - The Herald

 

History centre to study how Scots shaped modern world - The Herald, 28 October 2008

 

Prof's talk on how Scots shaped world - Evening News, 14 October 2008

 

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