Professor R A Houston
Professor R A Houston

Professor R A Houston

MA (St. And.), PhD (Cantab.), FRHistS, FAE

Contact Details

E-mail - rah@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462901
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927
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Teaching and Research Interests

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Academia Europaea

Teaches principally English social history, c.1550-1800. He researches Scottish and English social history c.1650-1850 but has published in many areas of European social history including literacy and demography. His current project is the perception of suicide in Scotland and the North of England, 1500-1850.

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]

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of First Level Modern History and offers the following Honours courses:


 

 

 

Main Publications

Autism in History

Scottish History