Professor Andrew Mackillop

  • Professor (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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2025

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2025) A North Atlantic “provincial”: James McGill, empire, “property,” and “improvement”. In: Lewis, Brian, Nerbas, Don and Shaw, Melissa N. (eds.) McGill in History. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal, pp. 40-59. ISBN 9780228025924 (In Press)

2024

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 and Driscoll, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571 (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2024) Regional perspectives on global empire: the North East of Scotland and pre-1815 British imperialism. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 11(2), pp. 83-112. (doi: 10.57132/jiss.368)

2023

Nzabampema, Pamela, Convery, Siobhan, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970, Rankin, Moira, Ashworth, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8649-5785 and O Maolalaigh, Roibeard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (2023) Glasgow University Diversity History Report, c.1850–c.1950. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.326136).

2022

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2022) Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland. In: Bhambra, Gurminder K. and McClure, Julia (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Iain and Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2020) Plantation slavery and landownership in the west Highlands and Islands: legacies and lessons. Discussion Paper. Community Land Scotland.

2019

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2019) What has the four nations and empire model achieved? In: Barczewski, Stephanie and Farr, Martin (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, Jackson W. and Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2017) Introduction: communities, courts and Scottish towns. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 358-364. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926816000754)

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) 'As hewers of wood, and drawers of water’: Scotland as an emigrant nation, c.1600 to c.1800. In: McCarthy, Angela and MacKenzie, John M. (eds.) Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9781474410052

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalisation, c. 1690 to c. 1815. In: Forsyth, David and Ugolini, Wendy (eds.) A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781474402736

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) Subsidy state or drawback province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British fiscal- military complex. In: Graham, Aaron and Walsh, Patrick (eds.) The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783. Routledge: London, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781472440785

2015

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2015) A North Europe World of tea: Scotland and the tea trade, c.1690-c.1790. In: Maxine, Berg, Gottmann, Felicia, Hodocs, Hanna and Nierstrasz, Chris (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: 16.

Articles

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2024) Regional perspectives on global empire: the North East of Scotland and pre-1815 British imperialism. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 11(2), pp. 83-112. (doi: 10.57132/jiss.368)

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Jackson W. and Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2017) Introduction: communities, courts and Scottish towns. Urban History, 44(3), pp. 358-364. (doi: 10.1017/S0963926816000754)

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2025) A North Atlantic “provincial”: James McGill, empire, “property,” and “improvement”. In: Lewis, Brian, Nerbas, Don and Shaw, Melissa N. (eds.) McGill in History. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal, pp. 40-59. ISBN 9780228025924 (In Press)

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2022) Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland. In: Bhambra, Gurminder K. and McClure, Julia (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2019) What has the four nations and empire model achieved? In: Barczewski, Stephanie and Farr, Martin (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, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) 'As hewers of wood, and drawers of water’: Scotland as an emigrant nation, c.1600 to c.1800. In: McCarthy, Angela and MacKenzie, John M. (eds.) Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9781474410052

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalisation, c. 1690 to c. 1815. In: Forsyth, David and Ugolini, Wendy (eds.) A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 13-31. ISBN 9781474402736

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2016) Subsidy state or drawback province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British fiscal- military complex. In: Graham, Aaron and Walsh, Patrick (eds.) The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783. Routledge: London, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781472440785

Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (2015) A North Europe World of tea: Scotland and the tea trade, c.1690-c.1790. In: Maxine, Berg, Gottmann, Felicia, Hodocs, Hanna and Nierstrasz, Chris (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, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 and Driscoll, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571 (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

Nzabampema, Pamela, Convery, Siobhan, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970, Rankin, Moira, Ashworth, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8649-5785 and O Maolalaigh, Roibeard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (2023) Glasgow University Diversity History Report, c.1850–c.1950. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.326136).

MacKinnon, Iain and Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 (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


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