Outline
biography
Formerly
Co-director and researcher in Scotland
for the Scottish Records Program of
the North Carolina Colonial Records
Project administered by the office
of Archives and History of the U.S.
State of North Carolina from 1986-1990;
later Principal Lecturer in History
and American Studies at what is now
the University of Northampton and
appointed to a Lectureship in Scottish
History at Edinburgh in 1995. Fellow
of the Royal Historical Society from
1992, Associate Editor and contributor
to the Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography since 1997 (which
includes contribution of new entries
to the online edition) and a member
of the editorial board for the online
edition of the Statistical Accounts
of Scotland maintained by the
Edina Project based at Edinburgh University
Library.
Publications
These
include The People Above: Politics
and Administration in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Scotland (Edinburgh 1980, reissued
2003); contributor and co-editor of
New Perspectives on the Politics
and culture of Early Modern Scotland
(1982); British History
1660-1832: National Identity and Local
Culture (1998) and British
Emigration 1603-1914 (2004).
See the full list of publications
published as part of the staff profile
published on the School of History
, Classics and Archaeology web pages.
Research
Interests
Scottish
politics 1625-1832, particularly government;
emigration from Scotland from 1603-1914;
social and culture interchange between
Scotland and North America 1603-1914,
and the social context of the Scottish
Enlightenment (see 'A Crucible for
Change: Enlightenment in Britain'
in Martine Fitzpatrick et al, editors,
The Enlightenment World
and the University
of Edinburgh Centre for the History
of the Book web pages).
Personal
interests
The
interdisciplinary boundaries connecting
the study of history and literature.
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