Senior Lecturer
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a.mackillop@abdn.ac.uk
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Department of History
School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX.
Room: 108
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Current Research
Dr Mackillop's current research interests revolve around three discrete areas.
The first charts the nature of Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in the English East India Company from ca. 1695 to ca. 1813. The chronological time-scale and methods used by these 'metropolitan provincials' to colonise one of London's greatest chartered corporations, with a burgeoning commercial and territorial empire in Asia, forms a key problematic. Utilising social network theory and concepts of 'human capital' to compare the mercantile, professional, financial and legal associative tendencies of these groups, the research explores the processes of enduring 'glocal' diversity and convergence that shaped those participating in the Asian hemisphere of Britain's global empire. The last thread of this topic takes the process of sojourning to Asia full cycle by focusing on the impact of wealth made in Asia upon Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
A related area of research involves charting patronage, mercantile, financial, legal and remittance networks among Irish, Scottish and Welsh mercantile and professional elites based in eighteenth-century London
A further area of interest is cultures of urban governance and urban disorder in post-Union Scotland.
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Teaching Responsibilities
- HI 1522: An Introduction to Scottish History
- HI 2520: Global Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century
- HI 304F: The Empire in the 'Orient': Britain in Asia, c.1600-1858
- HI 304G: 'City of the World': London in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1832
- HI 353X: Thinking History
- HI 4015 Special Subject I: 1857: The Indian Mutiny
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Publications (last 5 years)
‘History in the UK National Curriculum: A discussion’, Cultural and Social History, 9 (2012)
‘Locality, Nation, and Empire: The Scots and the British Empire in Asia, c.1690-1813’, in John M. MacKenzie & T.M. Devine (eds), The Oxford History of the British Empire: Scotland & the British Empire (Oxford, 2011)
“A Reticent People’?: The Welsh in British Asia, 1700-1815’, in Huw V. Bowen (ed.), Wales and The British Overseas Empire, 1680-1830 (Manchester, 2011).
‘Confrontation, Negotiation and Accommodation: Garrisoning the Burghs in Post-Union Scotland’, Journal of Early Modern History, 15 (2011)
‘The Outer Hebrides during the wars of Empire & Revolution, c. 1700-1815’ in J. Randell (ed.), The Military History of the Hebrides (Inverness, 2010)
‘Dundee, London and the Empire in Asia’, in Bob Harris, Christopher A. Whatley, Charles MacKean (eds.). Dundee: Renaissance to Enlightenment (Dundee, 2009)
A. Mackillop Micheal O’ Siochru, ‘Unions in Europe’ in idem (eds.), Forging the State: European State Formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 (Dundee, 2009)
‘A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union’, Scottish Historical Review, 87 (2008)
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