University of GuelphDepartment of History

Department of History Faculty

Graeme MortonGraeme MORTON

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext 52255
Office: 1009 MacKinnon Building
E-Mail: gmorton@uoguelph.ca

Education

  • M.A. University of Edinburgh, 1989
  • Ph.D University of Edinburgh 1993

Professional Experience

  • University of Guelph, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, Dept of History, since 2004
  • University of Edinburgh, Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, Dept of Economic and Social History, 1992-2004

Research Interests

  • Scottish national identity and nationalism since 1707
  • William Wallace
  • The urban history of Scotland, local and central government, 1820-1920
  • Civil society and associational activity
  • Borders and the historiography of stateless nations

Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision

  • National identity and nationalism in modern Scotland, Ireland, Britain and Canada
  • Urban History in 19th and 20th century Scotland and England
  • Economic and Social History of Victorian Scotland and Britain

Current Research

My co-editing duties for a special issue of Journal of Urban History and for a collection of essays on urban associations in Europe and North America (Ashgate) will soon be complete. Thereafter I will be researching and writing a text book, Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914 (EUP 2006) and co-editing and contributing to volume 3 of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800-1900 (EUP, 2008). I am also completing work on devolution/federalism in modern Scotland and Canada, civil society and local government in Victorian Edinburgh and on the historiographies of the Scottish nation.

Selected Publications

  • 2004, 2001 William Wallace: Man and Myth, (Sutton Publishing: Stroud).
  • 2003 'The historical struggle for democracy in Scotland', in J. Crowther, I. Martin and M. Shaw (eds.) Renewing Democracy in Scotland: An educational source book (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE): Leicester), pp. 9-12.
  • 2002, 2001 'Civil Society, Governance and Nation: 1832-1914’, The New Penguin History of Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, eds., R.A. Houston & W.W.J. Knox, (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press: London), pp. 355-416.
  • 2001 'Nationality in Civil Society: élite and folk culture in Scotland, 1707-1914', in special edition of Skhid—Zakhid, 4: Rossia et Britannia: Imperii ta natsii na okraiinakh Evropy, eds. Volodymyr Kravchenko & Stephen Velychenko, pp. 100-111.
  • 2000 'The First Home Rule Movement in Scotland, 1886 to 1918', in H.T. Dickinson & Michael Lynch (eds.) The Challenge to Westminster: Sovereignty, Devolution and Independence, (Tuckwell Press: East Linton), pp. 113-122.
  • 1999 Unionist-Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830-1860, (Tuckwell Press: East Linton).
  • 1998 'What if? The significance of Scotland's missing nationalism in the nineteenth century', in D. Broun, R. Finlay & M. Lynch (eds.) Image and Identity: the making and re-making of Scotland through the ages, (John Donald: Edinburgh), pp. 157-176.
  • 1998 Locality, Community and Nation (Hodder and Stoughton: London) with A. Morris.
  • 1998 'Civil society, municipal government and the state: enshrinement, empowerment and legitimacy, Scotland, 1800-1929', Urban History, Vol. 25, part 3, December, pp. 348-367. Special Issue: Civil Society in Britain.
  • 1996 'Scottish rights and 'centralisation' in the mid-nineteenth century', Nations and Nationalism Vol. 2, No. 2, July, pp. 257-279.
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