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Professor Angela McCarthy<\/p><\/div>\n

Angela McCarthy <\/strong>is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago where she teaches Scottish and Irish migration, modern Scottish history, and\u00a0modern Irish history. She has published several sole-authored and edited books on Scottish migration including Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840<\/em> (2011),\u00a0Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: \u2018For Spirit and Adventure\u2019\u00a0(<\/em>2007), and\u00a0A Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities since the Eighteenth Century <\/em>(2006). She has just completed a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden funded project on migration, ethnicity, and madness, and is currently researching the Scots in Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon before 1972).<\/p>\n

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Professor Tom Devine<\/p><\/div>\n

Sir Tom Devine, FBA, OBE, Kt,<\/strong>\u00a0is Scotland\u2019s leading historian with research interests in the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact. He has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research and is the only UK humanities or social science scholar elected to all three national academies in the British Isles. In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland\u2019s supreme accolade, by Queen Elizabeth 2 and in 2005 was appointed OBE in the New Years Honours List for \u2018services to Scottish history\u2019. He was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours. Magnus Linklater has labelled Devine \u2018as close to a national bard as the nation has\u2019. Devine is currently Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies<\/a> at the University of Edinburgh where he also held the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography before accepting a Personal Senior Research Chair of History. He is the author or editor of 34 books and close to 100 articles and his The Scottish Nation<\/em> (1999) became an international bestseller.<\/p>\n

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Dr Nicholas J Evans<\/p><\/div>\n

Nicholas J. Evans<\/strong> is a Lecturer in Diaspora History at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation<\/a> and the History Department<\/a> at the University of Hull. His research to date has focused on comparing voluntary and coerced migrations within and from Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has previously held research positions at the universities of Hull, Aberdeen and Cape Town,\u00a0the Institute of Migration in Finland,\u00a0the National Maritime Museum\u00a0in London, and the National Archives in Kew. He is currently exploring prototype ethical trade between Europe and Africa during late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He has published several articles and\u00a0developed the Scottish Emigration Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Banner Image: Clandonald Settlers Leaving Scotland for Alberta, 1924, Glenbow Archives, NA-331-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago where she teaches Scottish and Irish migration, modern Scottish history, and\u00a0modern Irish history. She has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}