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 '''William Robertson Chair of Commonwealth and American History (Faculty of Arts) (1963- )'''
-*1963-1986: George Albert Shepperson (1922- )
+*1963-1986: [[George Albert Shepperson (1922- )]]
 *1997-2007: [[Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones (1942- )]] (styled Professor of American History)
 *2007 - : [[Frank Cogliano]] (styled Professor of American History)

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 '''Medieval History (Faculty of Arts) (1954- )'''
-*1954-1980: [[(Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]
+*1954-1980: [[Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]
 *1997-1988: [[Kenneth Alan Fowler (1933- )]]
 *1986-1995: [[Angus I. K. Mackay (1939- )]]

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 *1881-1909: [[John Kirkpatrick (1835-1926)]]
-'''Constitutional Law and Constitutional History (Faculty of Law)''' (1909-1955)
+'''Constitutional Law and Constitutional History (Faculty of Law) (1909-1955)'''
 *1909-1925: [[John Hepburn Millar (1864-1929)]]
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 *1955-1968: [[John David Bawden Mitchell (1917-1980)]] (Professor of Constitutional Law from 1955)
-'''Constitutional Law (1955- ) (Faculty of Law)'''
+'''Constitutional Law (Faculty of Law) (1955- )'''
 *1968-1989: [[Anthony Wilfred Bradley (1934- )]]
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 *1999-2010: [[James Francis McMillan (1948-2010)]]
 *2011- : [[David Bloxham]]
 == Sources ==

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 == New Arts Chairs, 1954- ==
-A further major reform took place on the retirement of [[Richard Pares (1902-1958)]], Professor of History, in 1954. Two professors were appointed in his place to newly created Chairs of '''Modern History''' ([[David Bayne Horn (1901-1969)]]) and '''Medieval History''' ([[Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]. 1956 saw the foundation of a Chair of [[Economic History]], but from 1963 onwards the teaching of Economic History, [[Politics]], and [[Social Anthropology]] was transferred from the Faculty of Arts to the new created [[Faculty of Social Sciences]]. Scottish History, meanwhile, had involved into a discrete department.
+A further major reform took place on the retirement of [[Richard Pares (1902-1958)]], Professor of History, in 1954. Two professors were appointed in his place to newly created Chairs of '''Modern History''' ([[David Bayne Horn (1901-1969)]]) and '''Medieval History''' ([[Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]). 1956 saw the foundation of a Chair of [[Economic History]], but from 1963 onwards the teaching of Economic History, [[Politics]], and [[Social Anthropology]] was transferred from the Faculty of Arts to the new created [[Faculty of Social Sciences]]. Scottish History, meanwhile, had involved into a discrete department.
 The 1960s saw the foundation of two new Chairs, the William Robertson Chair of Commonwealth and American History (1963) and the Richard Lodge Chair of History (1966), followed, in 1970, by the Richard Pares Chair of History. From this stage onwards, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to trace a direct line of descent from the original Chair of Universal History to current History chairs. The Chair of Modern History (created 1954) has been vacant since 1977, and the Chair of Medieval History occupied intermittently. They appear to have been largely superseded by the  Richard Lodge Chair (devoted to British History) and Richard Pares Chair (devoted to European History).

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 == New Arts Chairs, 1954- ==
-A further major reform took place on the retirement of [[Richard Pares (1902-1958)]], Professor of History, in 1954. Two professors were appointed in his place to newly created Chairs of '''Modern History''' ([[David Bayne Horn (1901-1969)]]) and [[Medieval History]] ([[Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]. 1956 saw the foundation of a Chair of [[Economic History]], but from 1963 onwards the teaching of Economic History, [[Politics]], and [[Social Anthropology]] was transferred from the Faculty of Arts to the new created [[Faculty of Social Sciences]]. Scottish History, meanwhile, had involved into a discrete department.
+A further major reform took place on the retirement of [[Richard Pares (1902-1958)]], Professor of History, in 1954. Two professors were appointed in his place to newly created Chairs of '''Modern History''' ([[David Bayne Horn (1901-1969)]]) and '''Medieval History''' ([[Denys Hay (1915-1994)]]. 1956 saw the foundation of a Chair of [[Economic History]], but from 1963 onwards the teaching of Economic History, [[Politics]], and [[Social Anthropology]] was transferred from the Faculty of Arts to the new created [[Faculty of Social Sciences]]. Scottish History, meanwhile, had involved into a discrete department.
 The 1960s saw the foundation of two new Chairs, the William Robertson Chair of Commonwealth and American History (1963) and the Richard Lodge Chair of History (1966), followed, in 1970, by the Richard Pares Chair of History. From this stage onwards, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to trace a direct line of descent from the original Chair of Universal History to current History chairs. The Chair of Modern History (created 1954) has been vacant since 1977, and the Chair of Medieval History occupied intermittently. They appear to have been largely superseded by the  Richard Lodge Chair (devoted to British History) and Richard Pares Chair (devoted to European History).

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 == History in the Faculty of Arts, 1909-1954 ==
-A third historical Chair was created in the Arts Faculty by the [[Foundation of Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, 1901|Foundation of the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography]] in 1901. The early twentieth century saw considerable expansion of the Department of History with the creation of lectureships in Modern History, Political Science, Greek and Roman History (a shared post with the [[Humanity|Classics]] Department), Economic History, European and Medieval History, Military History (discontinued after the First World War), and Colonial and Indian History (later Constitution of the British Empire). A Lectureship in [[Geography]], created in 1908, was initially placed with the History Department before the creation of a Chair of Geography in 1931. (The Professor of [[Ecclesiastical History]], whose Chair was founded in the Faculty of Divinity in 1702, also gave classes within the Arts Faculty.)
+A third historical Chair was created in the Arts Faculty by the [[Foundation of Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, 1901|Foundation of the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography]] in 1901. The early twentieth century saw considerable expansion of the Department of History with the creation of lectureships in Modern History, Political Science, Greek and Roman History (a shared post with the [[Humanity|Classics]] Department), Economic History, European and Medieval History, Military History (discontinued after the First World War), and Colonial and Indian History (later Constitution of the British Empire). A Lectureship in [[Geography]], created in 1908, was initially placed with the History Department before the creation of a Chair of Geography in 1931. (The Professor of [[Ecclesiastical History]], whose Chair was founded in the [[Faculty of Divinity]] in 1702, also gave classes within the Arts Faculty.)
 The years immediately following the Second World War saw a further proliferation of courses taught within the History Department, including Imperial and American History, Palaeography and Diplomatic History, Islamic History, and International Relations

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 In 1836, Hamilton was transferred to the Chair of [[Logic and Metaphysics]], and the following year [[George Skene (1807-1875)]] succeeded him in a post, which Sir Alexander Grant notes, 'had come to be regarded as a subsidiary and temporary appointment for advocates of a literary turn'. It is unsurprisingly, then, that Skene should resign in 1842 to take up the post of Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire. The post was also something of a stopgap for Skene's successor, the metaphysician [[James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864)]], who left to assume the Chair of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University in 1846.
-The next professor, [[Cosmo Nelson Innes (1798–1874)|Cosmo Innes (1798–1874)]] was one of the nineteenth century's major historians of Scotland, pioneering a newly rigorous approach to studying historical records and source materials. His lectures accordingly focused on Scottish literature and proved exceptionally popular when Innes initially waived the course fee. His calculation that students would be happy to pay once their appetites wh=ere whetted proved unrealistic. The reintroduction of fees saw his class dwindle dramatically. Innes eventually renounced his efforts to make the course remunerative and gave up lecturing entirely.
+The next professor, [[Cosmo Nelson Innes (1798–1874)|Cosmo Innes (1798–1874)]] was one of the nineteenth century's major historians of Scotland, pioneering a newly rigorous approach to studying historical records and source materials. His lectures accordingly focused on Scottish literature and proved exceptionally popular when Innes initially waived the course fee. His calculation that students would be happy to pay once their appetites were whetted proved unrealistic. The reintroduction of fees saw his class dwindle dramatically. Innes eventually renounced his efforts to make the course remunerative and gave up lecturing entirely.
 == Reconstitution of the Chair, 1862-1892 ==

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 == Foundation of the Chair of Universal History ==
-On 28 August 1719, the [[Town Council]] of Edinburgh passed an order establishing a Professorship of Universal History at Edinburgh University. The Council noted that despite ‘being very much esteemed and the most attended of any one profession at all the Universities abroad’, history teaching was ‘yet nowhere set up in any of our Colleges in Scotland’. The explicit desire to remodel Scottish universities along European lines is consistent with the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]], during his term as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University from from 1703 to 1715. Although Carstares had recently died, University historian [[Sir Alexander Grant (1826-1884)]] suggests that the Council was carrying out measures urged before his death. It is no coincidence, he argues, that their choice – announced on the same day -- fell upon a protégé and intimate of Carstares in Charles Mackie (1688-1770).
+On 28 August 1719, the [[Town Council]] of Edinburgh passed an order establishing a Professorship of Universal History at Edinburgh University. The Council noted that despite ‘being very much esteemed and the most attended of any one profession at all the Universities abroad’, history teaching was ‘yet nowhere set up in any of our Colleges in Scotland’. The explicit desire to remodel Scottish universities along European lines is consistent with the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]], during his term as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University from from 1703 to 1715. Although Carstares had recently died, University historian [[Sir Alexander Grant (1826-1884)]] suggests that the Council was carrying out measures urged before his death. It is no coincidence, he argues, that their choice – announced on the same day -- fell upon a protégé and intimate of Carstares in [[Charles Mackie (1688-1770)]].
 == History Teaching, 1719-1780 ==

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 *2011- : [[David Bloxham]]
 == Sources ==
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 *[[Andrew Dalzel]], ''History of the University of Edinburgh from its Foundation'', 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862)
 *[[Sir Alexander Grant]], ''The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years'', 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884)
-*[[Lauriston William Sharp (1897-1959)|L. W. Sharp]], 'Charles Mackie, the First Professor of History at Edinburgh University', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 41 (1962), 23-45.
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