Professor R A Houston
Professor R A Houston
MA (St. And.), PhD (Cantab.), FRHistS, FAE, FRSE
Contact Details
E-mail - rah@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462901
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914
Teaching and Research Interests
Teaches principally English social history, c.1500-1800. He researches Scottish and English social history c.1450-1850 but has published in many areas of European social history including literacy, urbanisation, medical history and demography. For current projects see Curriculum Vitae.
Main Publications
- Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Literacy and Society in Scotland and England, 1660-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1989) [Details]
- Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education, 1500-1800 (Longman, 1989; Italian translation, 1996) [Details]
- The Population History of Britain and Ireland, 1500-1750 (MacMillan, 1991)
- Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760 (Oxford University Press, 1994)
- Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Oxford University Press, 1999) [Details]
- (with Uta Frith), Autism in History: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue (Blackwell, 2000) [Details]
- (edited with W W Knox) The New Penguin History of Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Penguin, 2001) [Details]
- Scotland: a very short introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2008) [Details]
- Punishing the dead? Suicide, lordship and community in Britain, 1500-1830 [Details]
- Round table review in Britain and the world 4, 2 (2011), 303-20.
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching of First and Second Level Modern History, taught Postgraduate programs and offers the following Honours courses:
- Culture and mentalities in early modern England, c.1500-1800
- From cradle to grave: living and dying in early modern England, c.1500-1800
- Madness and its Social Milieu in Britain, 1560-1820
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