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Professor Richard Oram F.S.A. (Scot.)
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters, collections, archive, and lecture theatre in the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh....
 is a Scottish
Scotland

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 historian and freelance author. He is a Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling
University of Stirling

The University of Stirling founded in 1967, in Stirling, Scotland. The Times 2008 University Ranking League tables of British universities placed the university fifth in Scotland and thirty-seventh in a list of 113 UK universities....
 and an Honorary Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is an ancient university founded in 1495, in Old Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the fifth oldest university in what is now the United Kingdom, and in the wider English-speaking world....
. He is also the director of the Centre for Environmental History and Policy at the University of Stirling. He received his undergraduate training at the University of St. Andrews. He did his doctoral research on medieval Galloway
Galloway

Galloway is an area in southwestern Scotland. It usually refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and Stewarty of Kirkcudbright . It is part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland....
, and in 2000 published The Lordship of Galloway (Birlinn).






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Professor Richard Oram F.S.A. (Scot.)
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters, collections, archive, and lecture theatre in the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh....
 is a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 historian and freelance author. He is a Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling
University of Stirling

The University of Stirling founded in 1967, in Stirling, Scotland. The Times 2008 University Ranking League tables of British universities placed the university fifth in Scotland and thirty-seventh in a list of 113 UK universities....
 and an Honorary Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is an ancient university founded in 1495, in Old Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the fifth oldest university in what is now the United Kingdom, and in the wider English-speaking world....
. He is also the director of the Centre for Environmental History and Policy at the University of Stirling. He received his undergraduate training at the University of St. Andrews. He did his doctoral research on medieval Galloway
Galloway

Galloway is an area in southwestern Scotland. It usually refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and Stewarty of Kirkcudbright . It is part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland....
, and in 2000 published The Lordship of Galloway (Birlinn). He has since gained more prominence as a historian with his biography of King David I of Scotland
David I of Scotland

David I or Dabhidh Mac Maol Chaluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians and later List of monarchs of Scotland . The youngest son of Maol Chaluim Mac Donnchaidh and Saint Margaret of Scotland, David spent most of his childhood in Scotland, but was exiled to England temporarily in 1093....
 (Tempus, 2004), and has been chosen to write the High Medieval
Scotland in the High Middle Ages

The history of Scotland in the High Middle Ages covers Scotland in the era between the death of Donald II of Scotland in 900 AD and the death of king Alexander III of Scotland in 1286, which led indirectly to the Scottish Wars of Independence....
 volume in the New Edinburgh history of Scotland series, Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 (due November, 2007). He has also published works on various Scottish regions, and on the Gaelic Earls of Mar, as well as a more popular work on the Scottish kings.

Selected works

  • (2000) The Lordship of Galloway. Edinburgh : John Donald, ISBN 0859765415
  • (2004) David I : the king who made Scotland : Stroud : Tempus, ISBN 075242825x
  • (forthcoming, 2007) Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230


Collaborations

  • with Richard Fawcett: (2004) Melrose Abbey, UK: Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0752428675


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