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Born in Edinburgh, Mackie was educated at Middlesbrough High School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he took a first-class degree in history and won the Lothian Essay Prize. He was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of St Andrews in 1909, aged 22. While at the university he introduced the subject of Scottish history into the ...
He was Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh from 1979 to 1992. He began his work by studying the nature of feudalism in Anglo-Norman Britain, but moved on to specialize more thoroughly on Scottish feudalism.
Peter Hume Brown, FBA (17 December 1849 – 1 December 1918) was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline. In addition to teaching and writing, he spent 16 years as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland , and served as Historiographer ...
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-century teacher of the humanities in the United States. He attended Hillhead High School, Glasgow, [2] Glasgow University and, on both a Snell and a Jenkyns Exhibition, [3] Balliol College, Oxford.
Sir Thomas Martin Devine OBE FRHistS FRSE FBA (born 30 July 1945) is a Scottish academic and author who specializes in the history of Scotland.He was knighted and made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to Scottish historiography, and is known for his overviews of modern Scottish history. [1]
Katie Stevenson is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and a professor of history, at Monash University. [1] She is former Vice-Principal at the University of St Andrews, Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology at National Museums Scotland, [2] and former director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews. [3]
The following are historians whose writings concern the history of Scotland. For historians who were Scots, see Category:Scottish historians. Subcategories.
The Renaissance in Scotland: studies in literature, religion, history and culture offered to John Durkan (1994) (co-editor with A. A. MacDonald and I. B. Cowan) Jacobitism and the '45 (1995) Image and identity: the making and re-making of Scotland through the ages (1998) (co-editor with D. Broun and R. J. Finlay)