Our Next Speaker - 7 February 2012

Here is some background information on our next speaker.  He will be giving us some new insight into the life of our national hero William Wallace and discussing aspects of the Declaration of Arbroath

Professor Dauvit Broun

Dauvit Broun (David Brown) (born 1961) is Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. A specialist in medieval Scottish and Celtic studies, he concentrates primarily on early medieval Scotland, and has written abundantly on the topic of early Scottish king-lists, as well as on literacy, charter-writing, national identity, and on the text known as de Situ Albanie.

He is editor of the New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, the pre-1603 editor of the Scottish Historical Review, convener of the Scottish History Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286'.