University of GuelphDepartment of History

Department of History Faculty

Graeme MortonGraeme MORTON

Office: 1009 MacKinnon Extension
Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ex. 52255
gmorton@uoguelph.ca
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Education

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

Professional Experience

  • University of Guelph, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, 2004-
  • University of Guelph, Department of History, 2004-
  • University of Edinburgh, Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, Department 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. - Graeme

Selected Publications

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