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During his lifetime he held the following positions: Assistant in History, Glasgow University 1924-25, Lecturer 1925-34, Senior Lecturer 1934-45; Professor of Modern History, Queen's University Belfast 1945-53; Burnett-Fletcher Chair of History, University of Aberdeen 1953-62; Vice-President, Selden Society 1954-86; FBA 1962; Kenan Professor of ...
The Chair of Modern History at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1893 as the Chair of History. In 1956 the title was changed to Modern History to reflect the establishment of the Edwards Chair of Medieval History. It is the second-oldest chair of history in the United Kingdom outside of Oxbridge.
The Chair of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Glasgow is the oldest chair of ecclesiastical history in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1716 by King George I of Great Britain . The Crown granted 100 pounds per year for this purpose.
Dauvit Broun (English: David Brown; born 1961) is a Scottish historian and academic.He is the chair of Scottish history at the University of Glasgow.A specialist in medieval Scottish and Celtic studies, he concentrates primarily on early medieval Scotland, and has written abundantly on the topic of early Scottish king-lists, as well as on literacy, charter-writing, national identity, and on ...
Pryde had come to Glasgow as an assistant in the Scottish History Department in 1927, having studied at St Andrews (MA 1922, PhD 1926) and Yale (on a Commonwealth Fund fellowship) Universities. [5] He served as President of the Historical Association of Scotland (wound up in 1964) and Chairman of Council of the Scottish History Society , and ...
The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of chancellors , rectors and principals of the university are contained in those offices' respective articles.
Alexandra Jane Shepard FRHistS FBA FRSE [1] is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. [2] In 2018 Shepard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy [3] in recognition for her work in gender history and the social history of early modern Britain. [4] In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [5]
The Edwards Professor of Medieval History is a prestigious professorship at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland.Initially established in 1955 as the Chair of Medieval History, it was later renamed in 1989 to honor John Edwards, a renowned Glasgow scholar and antiquarian who lived from 1846 to 1937.