T. C. Smout
Author of A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830
About the Author
T.C. Smout is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews and Historiographer Royal for Scotland. He became an environmental historian in the 1980s and in 1999 was invited to deliver the Ford Lectures in Oxford, published later by Edinburgh University Press as Nature show more Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600. He has also written extensively on woodlands history, most recently a History or the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920 with Alan R. MacDonald and Fiona Watson (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). His earlier works on Scottish social history, The History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830 (1969) and A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 (1986), are regarded as classics. show less
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Works by T. C. Smout
Victorian values : a joint symposium of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy December 1990 (1992) 4 copies
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- Legal name
- Smout, Thomas Christopher
- Other names
- Smout, Christopher [generally known as]
- Birthdate
- 1933-12-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- The Leys School, Cambridge
Clare College, Cambridge - Occupations
- historian
Historiographer Royal in Scotland
university professor emeritus - Organizations
- University of Edinburgh
University of St. Andrews - Awards and honors
- Order of the British Empire (Commander)
British Acadeny (Fellow)
Royal Society of Edinburgh (Fellow)
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Fellow)
Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Fellow) - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Scotland, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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Even after half a century remains highly informative, with finely balanced proportions of social, political, economic and cultural history. (Also a good reminder that whatever the drawbacks of the modern era, one shouldn't idealise the past.)
Still a very good single-book overview of important aspects of Scottish history.
A very good overview of life in Scotland from 1830-1950. Not only does it follow the more famous events and people but it also describes the life of highlanders, tenement dwellers, the poor and the middle class. Topics covered included religion, work, relationships, travel, recreation, rural living, etc.
Detailed, worthy academic textbook, but not written in an engaging style.
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