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Christopher Harvie

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Born: September 20 1944

Professor Christopher Harvie is a Scottish historian and author. He was Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany and a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife from 2007 to 2011.

Harvie grew up in the Borders village of St. Boswells and was educated at Kelso High School and the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1966 with a First Class Honours M.A. in History. He received his PhD from Edinburgh in 1972 for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886.

As a historian, Harvie was the Shaw-Macfie Lang Fellow and a tutor at Edinburgh University from 1966 to 1969. He joined the Open University in 1969 as a history lecturer, and from 1978 he was a senior lecturer in history.

His publications include Scotland and Nationalism , Fool’s Gold: the Story of North Sea Oil , Broonland: the Last Days of Gordon Brown , and Scotland the Brief: a Short History of a Nation .

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Christopher Harvie

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Books from Christopher Harvie

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Scotland: A Short History

No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-century Scotland

Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown

Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present

Industrialisation and Culture, 1830 - 1914

A Claim of Right for Scotland

Fool's Gold: The Story of North Sea Oil

The Scottish Labour Party: History, Institutions and Ideas

Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature

Cultural Weapons, Scotland and Survival in a New Europe

The Oxford History of Britain: Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century and the Age of Industry

1814 Year of Waverley: The Life and Times of Walter Scott (Clan Scotland)

Mending Scotland: Essays in Economic Regionalism

Radical Scotland, April / May 1983

Nationalism in the Nineties

The Devil and Michael Scot: A Gallimaufry of Fife and Beyond

Gairfish: The Liberty Tree

Dalriada: A Romance of Invention

The Lights of Liberalism: University Liberals and the Challenge of Democracy, 1860-86