Professor Tom Devine knighted in Queens Birthday Honours
14 Jun 2014

Congratulations to agency author Tom Devine who is knighted in today’s Birthday Honours for services to Scottish history. He has held various chairs at Edinburgh University since 2005 and is the author of over thirty books including the best-selling trilogy The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000 , Scotland’s Empire, 1600-1815 and Scotland’s Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora. Devine has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research, been a Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland and a Member of Council of the British Academy.