Dr Andrew Mackillop

  • Senior Lecturer in Scottish History (History)

Research interests

  • Early Modern Scottish History: particularly the means by which Scotland integrated into the British Union in the century or so after 1707
  • Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the British Empire in Asia: particularly involvement in the English East India Company from 1690 to 1820
  • Local, National and Global Histories: the use of social network models, global and glocal history approaches, and human-social capital theory in analyses of early modern British imperialism and expansion.
  • Scottish, Irish & Welsh immigrant communities in early modern London, c.1660-1830.
  • The role and significance of Scots law within the Early Modern British Empire.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2024

Mullen, S. , Mackillop, A. and Driscoll, S. (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

2022

Mackillop, A. (2022) Gender, race, and fortunes in the East India Company's 'Familial Proto-State': the evidence of Scottish wills and testaments, c.1740-c.1820. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5(2), pp. 158-184. (doi: 10.26443/jiows.v5i2.114)

MacKillop, A. (2022) Scotland, Scots, and the boundaries of the Indian Ocean World. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5(2), pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.26443/jiows.v5i2.109)

Mackillop, A. (2022) Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland. In: Bhambra, G. K. and McClure, J. (eds.) Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires. Series: Postcolonial International Studies (15). Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 157-176. ISBN 9781526166142 (doi: 10.7765/9781526166159.00018)

2021

Mackillop, A. (2021) Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820. Series: Studies In Imperialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719070723

2020

MacKinnon, I. and Mackillop, A. (2020) Plantation slavery and landownership in the west Highlands and Islands: legacies and lessons. Discussion Paper. Community Land Scotland.

2019

Mackillop, A. (2019) What has the four nations and empire model achieved? In: Barczewski, S. and Farr, M. (eds.) The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History. Series: Britain and the World. Palgrave MacMillan: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 261-283. ISBN 9783030244583 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-24459-0_12)

2017

Armstrong, J. W. and Mackillop, A. (2017) Introduction: communities, courts and Scottish towns. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 358-364. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926816000754)

Mackillop, A. (2017) Riots and reform: burgh authority, the languages of civic reform and the Aberdeen riot of 1785. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 402-423. (doi: 10.1017/S096392681600078X)

2016

Mackillop, A. (2016) 'As hewers of wood, and drawers of water’: Scotland as an emigrant nation, c.1600 to c.1800. In: McCarthy, A. and MacKenzie, J. M. (eds.) Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9781474410052

Mackillop, A. (2016) Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalisation, c. 1690 to c. 1815. In: Forsyth, D. and Ugolini, W. (eds.) A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781474402736

Mackillop, A. (2016) Subsidy state or drawback province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British fiscal- military complex. In: Graham, A. and Walsh, P. (eds.) The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783. Routledge: London, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781472440785

2015

Mackillop, A. (2015) A North Europe World of tea: Scotland and the tea trade, c.1690-c.1790. In: Maxine, B., Gottmann, F., Hodocs, H. and Nierstrasz, C. (eds.) Goods from the East, 1600-1800: Trading Eurasia. Series: Europe's Asian centuries. Palgrave MacMillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 294-308. ISBN 9781137403933 (doi: 10.1057/9781137403940_19)

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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Mackillop, A. (2022) Gender, race, and fortunes in the East India Company's 'Familial Proto-State': the evidence of Scottish wills and testaments, c.1740-c.1820. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5(2), pp. 158-184. (doi: 10.26443/jiows.v5i2.114)

MacKillop, A. (2022) Scotland, Scots, and the boundaries of the Indian Ocean World. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5(2), pp. 150-157. (doi: 10.26443/jiows.v5i2.109)

Armstrong, J. W. and Mackillop, A. (2017) Introduction: communities, courts and Scottish towns. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 358-364. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926816000754)

Mackillop, A. (2017) Riots and reform: burgh authority, the languages of civic reform and the Aberdeen riot of 1785. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 402-423. (doi: 10.1017/S096392681600078X)

Books

Mackillop, A. (2021) Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820. Series: Studies In Imperialism. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719070723

Book Sections

Mackillop, A. (2022) Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland. In: Bhambra, G. K. and McClure, J. (eds.) Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires. Series: Postcolonial International Studies (15). Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 157-176. ISBN 9781526166142 (doi: 10.7765/9781526166159.00018)

Mackillop, A. (2019) What has the four nations and empire model achieved? In: Barczewski, S. and Farr, M. (eds.) The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History. Series: Britain and the World. Palgrave MacMillan: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 261-283. ISBN 9783030244583 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-24459-0_12)

Mackillop, A. (2016) 'As hewers of wood, and drawers of water’: Scotland as an emigrant nation, c.1600 to c.1800. In: McCarthy, A. and MacKenzie, J. M. (eds.) Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9781474410052

Mackillop, A. (2016) Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalisation, c. 1690 to c. 1815. In: Forsyth, D. and Ugolini, W. (eds.) A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781474402736

Mackillop, A. (2016) Subsidy state or drawback province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British fiscal- military complex. In: Graham, A. and Walsh, P. (eds.) The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783. Routledge: London, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781472440785

Mackillop, A. (2015) A North Europe World of tea: Scotland and the tea trade, c.1690-c.1790. In: Maxine, B., Gottmann, F., Hodocs, H. and Nierstrasz, C. (eds.) Goods from the East, 1600-1800: Trading Eurasia. Series: Europe's Asian centuries. Palgrave MacMillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 294-308. ISBN 9781137403933 (doi: 10.1057/9781137403940_19)

Research Reports or Papers

Mullen, S. , Mackillop, A. and Driscoll, S. (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

MacKinnon, I. and Mackillop, A. (2020) Plantation slavery and landownership in the west Highlands and Islands: legacies and lessons. Discussion Paper. Community Land Scotland.

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Grants

  • (2015-17): Royal Society of Edinburgh Network Grant: ‘Scottish Immigration to Early Modern London, c.1660-c.1830’
  • (2016-19): Leverhulme Trust Research Project, ‘Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers: Concepts, Practices, Geographies’
  • (2013-14): Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies Grant Scheme: ‘Connecting and Projecting Aberdeen’s Burgh Records’

Supervision

I am pleased to supervise research projects that fall broadly within my areas of research expertise on post-union Scotland, the pre-1815 British Empire (particularly in Asia), East India Company history, comparative eighteenth-century Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories, eighteenth-century London and immigration.

I currently supervise the following postgraduate students:

  • Eloise Grey, The Ogilvie-Forbes of Boyndlie: A North East Migrant Family, 1740-1840
  • Simon Duffy, The British Raid on Washington, 1814

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • History 1A (Scotland’s Millenium: Kingdom, Union and Nation, 1000-1999)

Honours

  • The Making of Britain? Scotland and Ireland, 1707-c.1815

Postgraduate

  • Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalization, c.1600-c.1800
  • Theory and Reality in Western Warfare

Additional information

Convenor of the Scottish History Review Trust


Mackillop, Andrew