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Formerly Co-director and resident
researcher for the Scottish Records Program of the North
Carolina Colonial Records Project (administered by the
Division of Archives and History of the State of North
Carolina), 1986-1990, later Principal Lecturer in History
and American Studies at what is now The University of
Northampton, appointed at the university in 1995.
A n Associate Editor of and contributor to the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography; and a member
of the editorial board for the online edition of the
Old and New Statistical Accounts maintained by the Edina
Project based at Edinburgh University Library.
Past external
posts and offices in learned societies include external
examiner for Scottish History honours courses at the
University of St Andrews, 2001-4; Book Review Editor,
Scottish Historical Review, 1998-2002; Trustee,
Scottish Historical Review Trust, 1997-1999; Member
of Council, Economic & Social History Society of
Scotland, 1997-2001; Member of Council, Scottish Church
History Society, 1996- to present; Member of Council,
Scottish History Society, 1996-1999. External Examiner
for postgraduate dissertations submitted to the Universities
of Aberdeen, Glasgow, St Andrews and Dundee.
His publications
include 'A Crucible of Change: Enlightenment in Britain',
in Martin Fitzpatrick, et al., eds., The Enlightenment
World' and 'Literacy in Eighteenth Century Scotland',
forthcoming in volume 2 of The Edinburgh History
of the Book in Scotland.
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