BA (Stirling)
PhD (Edinburgh)
FRHistS
Scottish History since 1700
Books
Modern Scotland 1914-2000 (2004)
Edited Books
With E.J. Cowan Scottish History: The Power of the Past (2002)
Section editor 'Scotland since 1706' in M. Lynch (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (2001)
Articles and Chapters
'New Britain, New Scotland, New History?', Journal of Contemporary History, 36, 2 (April 2001),
'Does History Matter?: Political Scientists, Welsh and Scottish Devolution', Journal of 20th Century British History, 12, 2 (April 2001)
'Understanding Scotland: The State of the nation, 1707-1830', Scottish Affairs (Autumn 2001)
'Scotland in the Twentieth Century' in G. Menzies, In Search of the Scots (Edinburgh University Press 2001)
'Queen Victoria and the Cult of Scottish Monarchy in E.J. Cowan & R. J. Finlay (eds.) Scottish History: The Power of the Past (Edinburgh University Press 2002)
'The Labour Party in Scotland 1886-1945: Pragmatism and Principal' in G. Hassan (ed.) The Scottish Labour Party (Edinburgh University Press 2004)
'The Scottish Press and the Empire, 1850-1914' in Simon Potter (ed.) Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: Reporting the British Empire 1857-1921 (Dublin Four Courts Press 2004)
'Scotland and the Monarchy in the Twentieth Century' in W. L. Miller (ed.) Anglo Scottish Relations From 1900 to Devolution: Proceedings of the British Academy 128 (Oxford University Press 2005)
'The Turbulent Century: Scotland Since 1900' in J. Wormald Scotland: A History (Oxford University Press 2005)
'Gaelic, Scots and English: The Politics of Language in Inter-War Scotland' in W. Kelly & J. R. Young (eds.) Scotland and Ulster (Dublin Four Courts Press 2005)
'Scotland and Devolution, 1885-1945' in D. Tanner, C. Williams, W.P. Griffith & A. Edwards (ed.) Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1939 (Manchester University Press 2006)
'Urbanisation and Industrialisation: West Dunbartonshire Since 1750' in Ian Brown (ed.), Changing Identities: Ancient Roots: The History of West Dunbartonshire From Earliest Times (Edinburgh University Press)
'Radical Liberalism and Nationalism in Mid-Victorian Scotland' in Ivan Zoltan Denes (ed.) Liberty and the Search for Identity: Liberal Nationalisms and the Legacy of Empires (Budapest Central European University Press)
'Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland Since 1918' in Ian Brown (ed.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature Volume Three: Modern Transformations: New Identities (From 1918) (Edinburgh University Press 2007)
'The Wallace Cult in the Twentieth Century: The Making of a Nationalist Icon in E.J. Cowan (ed.) The Wallace Book (Birlinn 2007)
'Thatcherism, Civil Society and the Road to Home Rule: Scotland 1980-1997' in A. Murdoch (ed.) The Scottish nation: Identity and History, Essays in Honour of William Ferguson (Birlinn 2007)
Other major Publications
Independent and Free: Scottish Politics and the Origins of the SNP (Edinburgh 1994)
A Partnership for Good: Scottish Politics and the Union Since 1880 (Edinburgh 1997)
Edited with Tom Devine Scotland in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh 1996)
Edited with D. Broun and M. Lynch, Image and Identity: The Making and Remaking of Scotland Through the Ages (Edinburgh, 1998)
With Ted Cowan, Scotland Since 1688 (London 2000)
Research
Scotland Since 1700
