Tom Devine

Who is Tom Devine?

Thomas Martin "Tom" Devine OBE BA PhD DLitt HonDLitt Queen's Belfast HonDLitt Abertay Dundee Hon DUniv Strathclyde Hon Fellow UWS FRSE FRHistS FSAScot HonMRIA FBA is a historian of Scotland. His main research interest is the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact. He is regarded as the leading authority on the history of modern Scotland: ' Scotland's Chronicler', The Herald 17.07.1999 ; "Nobody has done more over the past thirty years to bring Scottish historiography into rigorous and unsentimental alignment with developments elsewhere than Tom Devine".Colin Kidd The Times Literary Supplement, "No individual has done more than Devine to advance our understanding of modern Scottish history at home and abroad over the last three decades". "The undoubted doyen of the field"