Christopher A. Whatley

Author | Editor

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Initially an historian of the coal and salt industries, and of Scottish industrialisation, he has since written on Scotland’s everyday life, urban society, popular protest, riot and disorder, the causes and consequences of the Union of 1707, memorialisation, and Scottish writers including Robert Burns and his legacy, and John Galt.

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Initially an historian of the coal and salt industries, and of Scottish industrialisation, he has since written on Scotland’s everyday life, urban society, popular protest, riot and disorder, the causes and consequences of the Union of 1707, memorialisation, and Scottish writers including Robert Burns and his legacy, and John Galt.

Books

  • Harvie’s Dyke
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Jul 2025
    £17.99

    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he...

  • Salt
    Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023
    £20.00

    Discover the story of Scotland, salt and the world. Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing...

  • Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present
    E-Book | Pub: 30 Jan 2008
    £30.00

    This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study and written to accompany the course. These volumes are: two tutorial volumes, two volumes of reprinted...