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Tom Devine

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Tom Devine was until 2011 the Sir William Fraser professor of Scottish history and palaeography at Edinburgh. He has written extensively on Scottish and Irish history and is the author of Scotland's Empire 1600-1815, and The Scottish Nation: 1700-2007

July 2019

  • Protesters outside the Conservative leadership hustings in Perth earlier this month make their feelings on no deal clear.

    double quotation markWhy Scottish nationalists will be cheering on Boris Johnson

    Tom Devine
    Amid the dismay north of the border, the pro-independence lobby knows a better recruiting sergeant would be hard to find

September 2014

  • winnie ewing devine article

    double quotation markHow history turned against Tory-voting Scotland

    Tom Devine
    Tom Devine: When the unionists won a famous election victory in 1955, the SNP was an irrelevant sect. Then came Thatcher and the 1980s
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