Tom Devine

Tom Devine

Thomas Martin "Tom" Devine OBE BA PhD DLitt HonDLitt Queen's Belfast HonDLitt Abertay Dundee Hon DUniv Strathclyde FRSE FRHistS HonMRIA FBA (born 30 July 1945, Motherwell) is a historian of Scotland. His main research interest is the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact. He is regarded as the leading authority on the history of modern Scotland: "Nobody has done more over the past thirty years to bring Scottish historiography into rigorous and unsentimental alignment with developments elsewhere than Tom Devine" (The Times Literary Supplement), "No individual has done more than Devine to advance our understanding of modern Scottish history at home and abroad over the last three decades" (Scottish Historical Review 2012).. "Professor Tom Devine is as close to a national bard as the nation has." (Magnus Linklater in The Times, 24 January 2013).