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Andrew G. Newby <a.newby@abdn.ac.uk> University of Aberdeen -Land question (urban / rural reform movements, nationalism and labour) in nineteenth century Scandinavia, comparative to Scotland and Ireland. -National Museums project (www.namu.se) -Collaboration with U.C. Volda (Norway) and Centre for Nordic Studies (Uni of Helsinki) in relation to the idea of the Nordic "Free Peasantry". |
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| Address: | Dept of History Crombie Annexe Meston Walk Old Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3FX United Kingdom |
| Primary Phone: | +44 1224 272999 |
| Web Page: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/history/staff/details.php?id=a.newby |
| List Affiliations: | Former List Editor for H-Skand |
| Interests: | Labor History / Studies |
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Bio: PROFESSIONAL: 2008 to date: Senior Lecturer in History, School of Divinty, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen 2004 to 2008: Lecturer in Scottish History, School of History & Classics, University of Edinburgh 1999-2004: Lecturer / Researcher, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki 2002-2004: Lecturer, Centre for Applied Languages, University of Helsinki 2003-2004: Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Aberdeen 2002: Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen EDUCATION 1996-2001: University of Edinburgh, Scotland: Ph.D. Scottish and Irish History Thesis title: ‘Shoulder to Shoulder?’ Scottish and Irish Land Reformers in the Highlands of Scotland, 1878-1894. External Examiner: Professor W. Hamish Fraser (Strathclyde University) Internal Examiner: Mr. Owen Dudley Edwards, Department of History 1991-1995: St. Andrews University, Scotland: Master of Arts (Honours) History MA Thesis: Emigration and Clearances from the Island of Barra ____ **SELELCT BIBLIOGRAPHY** MONOGRAPHS: Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, 1870-1912 (EUP, 2007) The Life and Times of Edward McHugh, 1853-1915: Land Reformer, Trade Unionist and Labour Activist (New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 2004) CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS: ‘11.9. ja puolueettomuuden kuolema – Suomi, Irlanti ja Nato’ [‘9-11 and the death of neutrality – Finland, Ireland and Nato’], in M. Kangaspuro & T. Matinpuro (eds.) Suomi ja Nato: Eurooppalaisia näkökulmia sotilasliitosta [Finland and Nato: European viewpoints on military alliance]. Co-written with Gavan Titley (July 2003). REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES: ‘’’Scotia Major and Scotia Minor”: Ireland and the birth of the Scottish Land Agitation, 1878-1882’. Irish Economic and Social History, XXXI (2004). ‘Edward McHugh, The National Land League of Great Britain, and the “Crofters’ War”, 1879-1882’. Scottish Historical Review, LXXXII (April 2003). This article was awarded the Maclehose-Dickinson Prize in Scottish History for 2001. ‘The “War on Terror” and non-alignment’. Co-written with Gavan Titley. Peace Review, XV (December 2003). ‘“Alas! Skyemen are imitating the Irish” A note on Alexander Nicolson’s “Little Leaflet” Concerning the Crofters’ Agitation’. Co-written with Dr. Ewen A. Cameron. Innes Review, 55.1 (April 2004). **SELECTED TEACHING** Britain and Scandinavia: 1801 to Present http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/scothist/courses/britainscandinavia/index.html Britain and Scandinavia: 1801 to Present (intensive) http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/renvall/eka/teaching/2006-07/bir07_britainscandinavia_booklet.pdf Finnish History 1881 to Present http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/07-08/course.php?code=U03632 Graduate School: World War II in Europe: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/documents/documents/MScWW2.htm |
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