Dr Jim MacPherson
Burghfield House
Dornoch
IV25 3HN
Available to talk to the media about
- 19th and 20th century British History
- 19th and 20th century Scottish History
- 19th and 20th century Empire History
In these languages
EnglishBiography
I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and my research focuses in particular on Irish and Scottish migration, diaspora and the British Empire.
I arrived at the 91视频网 Centre for History in November 2011, following academic posts at University College Dublin, the University of Bristol, Leeds Trinity and All Saints College and the University of Sunderland. I completed my PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2004 (supervised by Professor Joanna Bourke), where I researched women鈥檚 contribution to debate about Irish identity through print and associational culture at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Current research
I am currently completing a major research project on Irish female associational culture in the diaspora, which focuses on women鈥檚 membership of the Orange Order in Scotland, England and Canada (to be published as a book by Manchester University press in 2015).
My new research on 'Highland Homecomings and the British Empire' will examine how key figures such as John Diefenbaker (Canadian Prime Minister, 1957-1963) and Peter Fraser (New Zealand Prime Minister, 1940-1949) returned to their roots in the far north of Scotland and what this tells us about the region's connection to the British Empire and the wider world. Future plans for research include investigating the role of Irish migrants in the early days of cricket in Australia.
Research groups and interests
I am the founder of the 91视频网 Hub for the Study of British Identities.
Selected publications
Books
- Women and the Irish Nation: Gender, Culture and Irish Identity, 1890-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
- (Co-edited with Mary J. Hickman) Women a