Christopher Harvie - Wikipedia Christopher Harvie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Prof Chris Harvie Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife In office 3 May 2007 – 22 March 2011 Personal details Born (1944-09-21) 21 September 1944 (age 76) Motherwell, North Lanarkshire Political party Scottish National Party Spouse(s) [Virginia Mary Roundell, born April 1944, died 26 February 2005] Children [Alison Margaret Harvie, born August 1982] Alma mater University of Edinburgh Website https://web.archive.org/web/20100131122024/http://chrisharvie.co.uk/ Professor Christopher Harvie (born 21 September 1944, Motherwell) is a Scottish historian and a Scottish National Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife from 2007 to 2011. Before his election, he was Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Contents 1 Life and career 2 See also 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External links Life and career[edit] Harvie grew up in the Borders village of St Boswells and was educated in Kelso at Kelso High School and in Edinburgh at Royal High School. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1966 with a First Class Honours M.A. in History. He received his PhD from Edinburgh in 1972 for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886.[1][2] As a historian, Harvie was the Shaw-Macfie Lang Fellow and a tutor at Edinburgh University 1966-1969. He joined the Open University in 1969 as a history lecturer, and from 1978 he was a senior lecturer in history. In 1980, Harvie was appointed Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of several books on topics including Scottish history, nationalism, North Sea oil, the British political novel and European regionalisation. Harvie was formerly a member of the Labour Party. He co-wrote a pamphlet in favour of the Scottish Assembly along with Gordon Brown in 1979, and co-edited a history of Labour politics in Scotland. In 1988 he left the Labour Party for the SNP.[3] He is Honorary President of the Scottish Association for Public Transport and holds honorary chairs at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Strathclyde. He also writes for Guardian Unlimited's online 'comment is free' site, and he is a contributor to the Scottish Review of Books. He was elected during the 2007 election for the Mid Scotland and Fife region. He served on the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee.[4] Harvie won the Free Spirit of the Year award at The Herald newspaper's 2008 Scottish Politician of the Year awards.[5] He retired as an MSP at the 2011 election.[6] See also[edit] Government of the 3rd Scottish Parliament Bibliography[edit] Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown, Verso, 2010 A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930, Oxford University Press, 2008 Mending Scotland, Argyll Publishing, 2004 Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, 2002 Deep-Fried Hillman Imp: Scotland's Transport, Argyll Publishing, 2001 The Road to Home Rule, with Peter Jones, Polygon, 2000 Travelling Scot: Essays on the History, Politics and Future of the Scots, Argyll Publishing, 1999 No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-century Scotland, first published 1981, Edinburgh University Press (4th Edition), 2000 Fool's Gold: the Story of North Sea Oil, Hamish Hamilton, 1994, Penguin 1995 The Rise of Regional Europe, Routledge, 1993 Cultural Weapons: Scotland in a New Europe, Polygon, 1992 The Centre of Things: the Political Novel from Disraeli to the Present, Unwin Hyman, 1991 Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707-1994, first published 1977, Routledge (4th Edition), 2004 A Voter's Guide to the Scottish Assembly[permanent dead link], with Gordon Brown, David Watt & Sons, 1979 The Lights of Liberalism: University Liberals and the Challenge of Democracy, 1860-1886, Allen Lane, 1976 References[edit] This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Christopher Harvie" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) ^ http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/chris_harvie/index.htm ^ C.T., Harvie (1972). "University liberals and the challenge of democracy, 1860-1887". hdl:1842/19830. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) ^ Walker, David (19 June 2007). "Chris Harvie: On track to cause a stir". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2015. ^ "Previous MSPs: Session 3 (2007-2011): Christopher Harvie". Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 5 June 2015. ^ Dinwoodie, Robbie (14 November 2008). "VIDEO: Sturgeon named Scottish Politician of the Year". The Herald. Retrieved 5 June 2015. ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/veteran-nationalist-msp-to-stand-down-1.1034022 External links[edit] Christopher Harvie Comment is free profile Election diary Christopher Harvie interview on his book Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown on New Statesman by Jonathan Derbyshire Authority control BNE: XX902166 BNF: cb12140900x (data) CANTIC: a10099177 GND: 171095685 ISNI: 0000 0001 0901 6437 LCCN: n50026105 NKC: mzk2004257539 NTA: 068202377 PLWABN: 9810568077505606 SUDOC: 029874939 VIAF: 52814914 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50026105 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Harvie&oldid=931951857" Categories: 1944 births Living people People from Motherwell People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the Open University University of Tübingen faculty Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011 Scottish Labour Party politicians Scottish National Party MSPs Scottish historians Scottish literary critics Scottish political writers People educated at Kelso High School, Scotland Hidden categories: CS1 errors: missing periodical Use dmy dates from September 2012 Use British English from September 2012 All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from August 2017 Articles with permanently dead external links BLP articles lacking sources from May 2009 All BLP articles lacking sources Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Deutsch مصرى Edit links This page was last edited on 22 December 2019, at 12:11 (UTC). 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