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Davidson, Roger, b 1942 (Professor Emeritus in Social History, University of Edinburgh)

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Dates

  • Existence: b 1942

Biography

Roger Davidson M.A., Cert. Ed., Ph.D, F.R.Hist.S. is Professor Emeritus in History at Edinburgh University. He was born in 1942. He graduated in history from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 1964, where he also undertook his doctorate during 1967-70. He was appointed to a Lectureship in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh in 1970, and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1984, Reader in 1996, and to a Personal Chair in Social History in 2002. Davidson is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a registered practitioner of the Higher Education Academy. He was editor of Social History of Medicine from 2000 to 2004, and a former member of the Scottish Records Advisory Council.

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Papers of Professor Roger Davidson

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Identifier: Coll-1497
Scope and Contents

The collection of Papers of Professor Roger Davidson is composed of his material used in the preparation of two of his books: The Sexual State: sexuality and Scottish governance 1950-80 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2012), and Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2019). See the box lists for more details.

Dates: 2000s-2010s (creation of notes and research material themselves); 1880s-1980s (date of source material)