Which Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh University has written several series of novels including '2½ Pillars Of Wisdom' and '44 Scotland Street'?
"44 Scotland Street 44 Scotland Street is an episodic novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". The story was first published as a serial in ""The Scotsman"", starting 26 January 2004, every weekday, for six months. The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. It was partially influenced by Armistead Maupin’s ""Tales of the City"", a famous serial story. It is the first book in a series of the same name. The series now has 12 books, as of Dec 2017. The novel tells the story of Pat, a student during"
"novel, ""44 Scotland Street"". In 2011 a group of ten book sculptures were deposited around Edinburgh as gifts to cultural institutions and the people of the city. Many of the sculptures made reference to the work of Rankin, and an eleventh sculpture was a personal gift to him. To date he has published 25 novels, two short story collections, one original graphic novel and one novella, and a non-fiction book. He has also written a Quick Reads title. Edited anthology Recordings Graphic novels Graphic novella Opera Short stories Other Ian Rankin Ian James Rankin, (born 28 April 1960) is a"
"in the present led to it being declared the first UNESCO City of Literature in 2004. Famous authors who have lived in Edinburgh include the economist Adam Smith, born in Kirkcaldy and author of ""The Wealth of Nations"", Scotland has a rich history of science and engineering, with Edinburgh producing a number of famous names. John Napier, inventor of logarithms, was born in Merchiston Tower and lived and died in the city. His house now forms part of the original campus of Napier University which was named in his honour. He lies buried under St. Cuthbert's Church. James Clerk Maxwell,"
"celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016 where he addressed large audiences especially in Belgrade and Budapest. (as General Editor, with Simon Palfrey) ""The Shakespeare Now!"" series (Arden, Bloomsbury): Ewan Fernie Ewan Fernie is a British scholar and writer. He is Professor, Fellow and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Fernie won the James Elliott prize for his 1994 first-class degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he was also awarded a medal in aesthetics, the Horsliehill-Scott Bursary in Philosophy and a number of other prizes. He took his PhD from the"
"Ninian and Adomnán's ""Vita Sancti Columbae"". He has published two books relating to Pictish and northern British warfare, and recently authored the first volume in the New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, titled ""From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795"" (EUP, 2009). James E. Fraser (historian) James Earle Fraser (fl. 2000s) is a Canadian historian and Picticist. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and did masters work at the University of Guelph. He went on to do his Ph.D on the Christianization of Fortriu and its impact of Vikings at the University of Edinburgh, and was a"
"John Herdman (author) John Macmillan Herdman (born 20 July 1941) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and literary critic. He is the author of seventeen books including five novels and various works of shorter fiction, a play, two critical studies and a memoir, and he has contributed to twenty other books. His work has been translated, broadcast and anthologized, and taught at universities in France, Australia and Russia. John Herdman was born in Edinburgh and educated there at Merchiston Castle School, and then at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in English in 1963 and"
"John Herdman (author) John Macmillan Herdman (born 20 July 1941) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and literary critic. He is the author of seventeen books including five novels and various works of shorter fiction, a play, two critical studies and a memoir, and he has contributed to twenty other books. His work has been translated, broadcast and anthologized, and taught at universities in France, Australia and Russia. John Herdman was born in Edinburgh and educated there at Merchiston Castle School, and then at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in English in 1963 and"
"""modern, inclusive, skeptical intelligence"" to the question of Scottish literature. He was general editor of the four-volume series ""History of Scottish Literature"" (published 1987-89). He has also been involved as editor or publisher with magazines including ""Cencrastus"" and ""Edinburgh Review"". Cairns Craig Robert Cairns Craig, (born 16 February 1949) is a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature. He has been Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen since 2005. Before that, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, serving as Head of the English Literature Department from 1997 to 2003. He was"
"fellows include Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin, Benjamin Franklin, and James Clerk Maxwell, and James Watt. A comprehensive biographical list of Fellows from 1783-2002 has been published by the Society. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, judges to be ""eminently distinguished in their subject"". Around 50 new fellows are elected each year in March. there are around 1650 Fellows, including 71 Honorary Fellows (HFRSE) and 76 Corresponding Fellows. Fellows are entitled"
"Susan Manning (professor) Susan Manning (Professor) (24 December 1953 – 15 January 2013) was a Scottish academic born in Glasgow, Scotland. She specialized in Scottish studies and English literature. Before her untimely death in 2013 at the age of 59, she was the Grierson Professor in English literature in the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH), an institute at the University of Edinburgh. Prof. Manning's work on Scottish Enlightenment and transatlantic literature led to international acclaim. Due to her academic expertise, Susan was made a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society"
"at the University of Exeter from 1990 to 2000. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust where he regularly speaks on Leadership development programmes. Since 2006, he has been Honorary Professor of Leadership at the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong. In 2009 he was appointed Chair of Leadership Studies United Nations System Staff College in Turin. He is President of Adair International. John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business,"
"as Regius Professor at Edinburgh. Current members of Edinburgh Law School include current Regius Professor Neil Walker; Lord President Reid Professor of Law Alexandra Braun; Professor of European Union Law Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne; the academic and novelist Professor Alexander McCall Smith; former Judge at the European Court of First Instance Sir David Edward QC; Scottish Law Commissioner Dr Andrew Steven; former Scottish Law Commissioners Emeritus Professor George Gretton, Professor Hector MacQueen, Professor Gerry Maher QC and Professor Kenneth Reid; Emeritus Professor Robert Black QC (architect of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial); and Honorary Fellow and former Lord"
"through the bequest of William's wife, Margaret, in 1985. The collection highlights in particular the Scottish artists of the twentieth century. Professor William Lindsay Renwick is commemorated on the Glasgow School of Art’s First World War Roll of Honour. William Lindsay Renwick William Lindsay Renwick (6 January 1889 to 25 November 1970) was Professor of English Literature at the Durham University from 1921 to 1945 and Regis Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at University of Edinburgh from 1945-1959. Renwick was born at 32 Kelvin Drive, Glasgow, on 6 January 1889, the youngest of five children of Jane Renwick (née"
"John Hill (classicist) Rev Prof John Hill FRSE LLD (1747–1805) was a Scottish minister and classicist. In 1783 he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was born in St Andrews on 27 April 1747 the son of Rev John Hill (died 1764) by his first marriage. His mother, Elizabeth, died at or soon after his birth. His father remarried and had more children, including John’s half-brother, George Hill. He attended St Andrews Grammar School then St Andrews University where he graduated MA around 1767. From 1775 until 1793 he was joint Professor of"
"of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, where he served as a member of their Young People's committee. Jon Oberlander Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987. Oberlander described three main strands in his research: intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g.,"
"retirement in 2016 when he became Professor Emeritus. He has published widely on commercial law, property law, trusts, insolvency law, comparative law and legal history; he is a Solicitor, a Notary Public and a Writer to the Signet. He is the author of several textbooks on conveyancing (co-written with former Scottish Law Commissioner, Professor Kenneth Reid); property, trusts and succession law (co-written with Scottish Law Commissioner, Dr Andrew J M Steven), the law of inhibitions and adjudications (the diligences, or mechanisms for enforcing judgments, affecting land in Scotland); and searches. At the Scottish Law Commission, Professor Gretton was the lead"
"from 1991, becoming Director of the University's Scottish Studies Centre in 1993 until his retirement in September 2008. He is now an Honorary Professor at St Andrews, still undertaking postgraduate supervision in the School of English. He was a member of the Scottish Arts Council (1992–1994). He holds an honorary doctorate (LL.D., law) from the University of Dundee, an honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the University of Hull and St Andrews. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. ""Terry Street"", Dunn's"
"Alasdair Paterson Alasdair Talbert Paterson is a Scottish poet and retired academic librarian. He won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry in 1975 and published several collections before taking a twenty-year break from publication. In his career as a librarian he worked in the universities of Liverpool, Cork and Sheffield, and he held the post of University Librarian at Exeter University. In his last year at Exeter he was also Acting Director of Computing Services. After retirement he resumed publishing with ""On the governing of empires"" in 2010. Paterson was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the universities of Edinburgh"
"and ""The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution"" (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), ""The Independence of Scotland"" (Oxford University Press, 2009), ""Rescaling the European State"" (Oxford University Press, 2013), (edited with Donatella della Porta) ""Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences"" (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Debating Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2017). Keating is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh., Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and Member of the European Academy. Michael Keating (political scientist) Michael Keating (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European"
"and Sheffield. He has travelled extensively and was involved in several academic projects in Eastern Europe during his career, co-ordinating the E-URALS and KNOWLEDGE projects for TEMPUS in the early 2000s and co-presenting a 2004 seminar series on ""Innovations in European academic libraries: Issues and contexts"" in Warsaw. He now lives in Exeter. Alasdair Paterson Alasdair Talbert Paterson is a Scottish poet and retired academic librarian. He won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry in 1975 and published several collections before taking a twenty-year break from publication. In his career as a librarian he worked in the universities of Liverpool,"
"was educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge before taking up a position of Reader in Romantic literature at Cambridge University. He is married and has two daughters. In 2004, he was appointed to Regius chair of English language and literature at University of Glasgow, and is Head of the School of Critical Studies, currently from 1 August 2010. He also held teaching appointments at the University of Bologna, Italy; University of Dundee, Scotland; and a visiting professorship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. He has lectured widely in India, Europe, and"
"as well as co-editing (with Dr Craig Smith) the second edition of ""The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment"" and co-editing (with Prof Paul Wood) ""Thomas Reid and the University"", the tenth and final volume in the Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid, a series to which he has contributed ""Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts"" (2005). Alexander Broadie Alexander Broadie , Scottish philosopher, emeritus professor of logic and rhetoric, and honorary professorial research fellow at Glasgow University. He writes on the Scottish philosophical tradition, chiefly the philosophy of the Pre-Reformation period, the 17 century, and the Enlightenment."
"Dugald Stewart Dugald Stewart (; 22 November 175311 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for popularizing the Scottish Enlightenment and his lectures at the University of Edinburgh were widely disseminated by his many influential students. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In most contemporary documents he is referred to as Prof Dougal Stewart. He was the son of Matthew Stewart (1715–1785), professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh (1747–1772), and was born in his father's quarters at Old College. His mother was Marjory Stewart, his father's"
"George Stuart (classicist) Prof George Stuart FRSE LLD (1715–1793) was an 18th century Scottish classicist. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. From 1741 to 1775 he was Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University also serving as the University Librarian during this period. The Humanities course included the teaching of Latin and the study of Roman Antiquities. In 1773 he was simply living in private rooms at Old College. He corresponded with many well-known figures of the period including William Smellie David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan and William Little of Liberton. He died"
"a son and a daughter. The son's death in 1809 brought about his retirement from the active duties of his chair. His sister, Janet Stewart, married Rev Thomas Miller of Cumnock, and they were parents to Dr Patrick Miller FRSE (1782-1871). Dugald Stewart Dugald Stewart (; 22 November 175311 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for popularizing the Scottish Enlightenment and his lectures at the University of Edinburgh were widely disseminated by his many influential students. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In most contemporary documents he"
"Society of Edinburgh (FRS(E)). Elspeth Smith Dr Elspeth Bruce Smith PhD, DSc, FRS(E) (1923 – 3 October 2017), née Dunkerley, is a British academic and biochemist. Smith was educated at Cambridge, London and Aberdeen. During World War II she was employed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Afterwards, she was a research assistant at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1955 she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1968 she became a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and was subsequently a Reader, then Honorary Research Fellow in Clinical Biochemistry there. She was elected a"
"John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his National Service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where"
"Hotel on Princes Street, Edinburgh. Lady Alexandra Watson, Dame Sarah Siddons, Dr. Frances Melville, Professor E.T. Whittaker, and Dr Marion Gilchrist where among, hundred-plus guests that attended the event in honour of her work campaigning for women's education. Frances Simson Frances Helen Simson (1854–1938) was a Scottish suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh in 1893. Simpson was born in Edinburgh 2 April 1854. She was the daughter of William Simson (1811–1858), secretary of the Bank of Scotland, and Jane Christiana Aberdein (""b"". 1820) and was one"
"& Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2012 he has also been a trustee at the Planet Earth Institute. He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Christopher Edwards (clinician) Professor Sir Christopher Richard Watkin Edwards (born 1942) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University. Educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge, Edwards became senior lecturer in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1975, Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1980 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1991. He was appointed the first Principal of"
"Andrew Hook Andrew Hook, FBA, FRSE, is Emeritus Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1954, he completed national service and went on to graduate study at Manchester and Princeton universities. He received his doctorate from Princeton in 1960. His teaching career divided almost equally into a decade at the University of Edinburgh, a decade at the University of Aberdeen, and almost two decades at the University of Glasgow. Since retiring from the University of Glagow he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University English Department and"
"John Stuart of Inchbreck Prof John Stuart of Inchbreck FRSE FSA(Scot) (1751–1827) was an 18th/19th century Scottish scholar. He was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He was born at Castletown in the Mearns in 1751, the second son of Dr John Stuart of Inchbreck (b.1744) and his first wife, Elizabeth Lawson. The family estate was Inchbreck House near Glenbervie. He was educated at Glenbervie then Arbuthnott school. His older brother, Dr David Stuart, initially inherited the Inchbreck estate. In 1766 he began to study Law at Aberdeen University. He continued this for"
"Robert Black (lawyer) Professor Robert Black QC, FRSA, FRSE, FFCS, ILTM is Professor Emeritus of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has been an Advocate in Scotland since 1972, was in practice at the Bar and became a QC in 1987. Robert Black was educated at Lockerbie Academy and Dumfries Academy. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1964 with First Class Honours in Law in 1968 and was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize as the most distinguished graduate in that year. Thereafter he studied at McGill University in Montreal on a Commonwealth Scholarship graduating"
"in the centre of Edinburgh or at its Learning Centre in Meadowbank. Every four years, the ESU holds a World Members Conference, and in 2008 the World Members Conference was hosted by ESU Scotland in Edinburgh. Speakers at the Conference included Lord Robertson, Professor David Crystal, Sir Richard Dearlove, Professor Bob Worcester, Sir John Bond, Professor Stanley Wells and Sir Christopher Meyer. Each year, ESU Scotland runs a number of scholarships: The current Honorary President of ESU Scotland is the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Alex Fergusson. The current vice presidents are Jamie McGrigor MSP, Robin Harper MSP, Mike"