University of Edinburgh

The Fragmentation of the Labour Party 'Revisionist' Right, 1971 - 1983

Academic History:

2016 -  present PhD History, University of Edinburgh

2012 - 2013 MSc by Research History (Distinction), University of Edinburgh

2005 - 2008 BA History (Tripos Parts I & II), University of Cambridge

Supervisors:

Professor Ewen Cameron, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History & Palaeontology, University of Edinburgh

Dr Robert Crowcroft, Lecturer in Contemporary British History, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests:

• Modern Scottish & British History
• History of Political Thought
• Labour & Trade Union History
• Intellectual History
• Historiography
• The role of psychology in politics

Previous Research Projects:

Research Assistant (2011 -2012): 'The Fyffe Family History Project' - Principal Investigator/Supervisor: Prof. Ewen Cameron, University of Edinburgh

Conference/Seminar Papers:

• 'The Birth of the Social Democratic Party in Scotland, 1981-1983', Scottish History Research Seminars, University of Edinburgh, April 2015
• 'The SDP & the Trade Unions', 9th European Social Science History Conference, University of Glasgow, April 2012

Scholarships:

2016 - present: AHRC DTP Studentship, University of Edinburgh

Publications:

Book Chapter: Calum Aikman, ‘Frank Chapple: a thoughtful trade union moderniser’, in Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid (eds.), Alternatives to State Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth-Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Journal Article: Calum Aikman, ‘The Birth of the Social Democratic Party in Scotland’, Contemporary British History, 27:3 (2013) pp. 324-47.

Contact Details:

Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Email: s0970707@sms.ed.ac.uk

First published: 10 November 2016