Dr David Allan
MA (Edin.), PhD (Cantab.), FRHistS - Reader
Contact Details
E-mail - da2@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462885
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914
Teaching and Research Interests
Teaching and research activities span Scottish, British and European history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with particular interest in cultural and intellectual history, historiography, the history of ideas and political thought.
Main Publications
Authored Books
- Understand Scottish History: A Teach Yourself Guide (2011)
- Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England (2010) [Details]
- Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment 1740-1830 (2008) [Details]
- "A Nation of Readers": The Lending Library in Georgian England (2007) [Details]
- Adam Ferguson (2006) [Details]
- Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment (2001)
- Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540-1690 (2000) [Details]
- Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History (1993) [Details]
Essays and Articles
Research Students
I am happy to supervise students undertaking research in the following areas:
Scottish Enlightenment.
The history of Scottish universities, especially St Andrews, since the eighteenth century.
Other aspects of cultural and intellectual history since the Reformation.
Some topics in British and European intellectual history in the period 1600-1900.
Administrative Duties
Chair of Scottish History Degree Committee
Associate Director, St. Andrews Scottish Studies Institute
Seminar Co-Ordinator, Scottish History
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching of Second Level courses and offers the following Honours courses:
- Constructing Identities: Scottish Historians and the Past, 1707-1832
- "A Hotbed of Genius"
- The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought, 1512-1697
Participates in the teaching of the following Postgraduate course:
- Peoples and Identities in Scotland
- Building Britain: The Construction & Deconstruction of Britishness, 1707-2000
Main Publications
