Christopher Smout
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Professor Thomas Christopher Smout CBE, FBA, FRSE, (Born 1933) has been the Historiographer Royal in Scotland since 1993 and is Professor Emeritus in History at St Andrews University. He has taught and researched in the field of British Environmental History and Scottish Social History. He was the founder of the Institute for Environmental History.
Professor Smout was educated at The Leys School and Clare College, University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Edinburgh Department of Economic History. He was an Assistant Lecturer 1959-1962, Lecturer 1962-1964, and Reader 1964-1970 before being appointed as Professor of Economic History in 1970. From 1980 to 1991, he was Professor of Scottish History at St Andrews University and he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde since 1991.
Smout has also served as Director of the St John's House Centre for Advanced Historical Studies 1992-1997, Director of the Institute for Environmental History since 1992, Deputy Chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) 1991-1997, and on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and the Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland. He is Chairman of the Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion Trust (SCAPE), which operates from St Andrews (www.scapetrust.org).
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- People and woods in Scotland : a history, 2003.
- (Co-Editor with Gordon Menzies) In search of Scotland, 2001.
- Nature contested : environmental history in Scotland and Northern England since 1600, 2000.
- (Co-Editor with RA Lambert) Rothiemurchus: Nature and People on a Highland Estate 1500-2000, 1999
- Scottish Woodland History, 1997.
- Prices, food, and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780, 1995.
- (Co-Editor with S Foster) The History of Soils and Field Systems, 1994.
- (Editor) Scotland Since Prehistory - Natural Change and Human Impact, 1993.
- (Editor) Scotland and the Sea, 1992.
- Scottish Voices 1745-1960, 1990.
- Scotland and Europe 1200-1850, 1986.
- A Century of the Scottish People 1830-1950, 1986.
- (Co-Editor with Michael Flinn) The Search for wealth and stability : essays in economic and social history, 1979.
- The state of the Scottish working-class in 1843 : a statistical and spatial enquiry based on the data from the Poor Law Commission Report of 1844, 1979.
- Comparative aspects of Scottish and Irish economic and social history, 1600-1900, 1977.
- (Co-Editor with Michael Flinn) Essays in social history, 1974.
- A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, 1969.
- Scottish trade on the eve of union, 1660-1707, 1963.
