Ewen Cameron

My research focuses on four inter-related themes. The first is the history of the Scottish Highlands. I have published widely on this and am currently completing a volume in EUP’s History of Gaelic Scotland series; I co-edited (with Dr Annie Tindley of the University of Newcastle) volume for Birlinn on the contexts of the medical doctor and social reformer Dr Lachlan Grant. My interests in the highlands led me to make comparisons with Irish history and the comparative and transnational history of the land question has remained an interest. Research undertaken for my general history of Scotland since 1880, Impaled on a Thistle (Edinburgh, 2010) stimulated work on the political history of modern Scotland. This investigation of the position of Scotland within the Union and the relationship between Scotland and the UK state has prompted my recent work on the history of Scottish Universities in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work explores the relationship between the Scottish Universities and the British state in the period since the 1880s.