Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan, FBA

British Academy

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, FRHistS

Royal Historical Society

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Royal Society of Edinburgh

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 (born 17 October 1926) is a Scottish

Scotland

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 historian

Historian

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From 1962 to 1993 he was Professor of Scottish History and Literature

Professor of Scottish History and Literature, Glasgow

The Chair of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1913, endowed by a grant from the receipts of the 1911 Scottish Exhibition held in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, as well as donations from the Merchants House of Glasgow and other donors. The Chair has been held...

 at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

. On giving up his professorship, he became Clerk of Senate and Dean of Faculties, retiring from the University in 2000. Since 2001 he has been Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Literature.

He continues to publish on the history of Scotland in the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

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Select bibliography

• Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973.
• The Kingship of the Scots: Succession and Independence 842–1292. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

External links

• British Academy biographical note