Dr Nicola Martin
The Centre for History
Dornoch
Twitter: @NicolaMartin14
Available to talk to the media about
- Jacobitism
- British Army (18th century)
- Early American history
- Indigenous history
- British imperialism
- Scottish and British history (1688-1815)
In these languages
EnglishBiography
I am a transatlantic military historian, specialising in eighteenth-century British imperialism and Jacobitism. I completed my AHRC funded PhD ‘The Cultural Paradigms of British Imperialism in the Militarisation of Scotland and North America, c.1745-1775’ with the University of Stirling in 2019. Having focused on Scottish History, primarily Jacobitism, for my BA(Hons) and MSc at the University of Strathclyde, my doctoral research took a transatlantic approach to warfare and pacification, examining how militarisation affected attitudes towards Scottish Highlanders, Indigenous peoples, and colonial settlers. I joined the Centre for History as a teaching assistant in September 2018 and as a lecturer in November 2019, having previously taught at the University of Stirling and for the University of Dundee/Open University.
Current research
- Militarisation and the role of the British army in the coming of the American Revolution
- Military-civil relations, including military-indigenous relations
- Loyalism and anti-Jacobitism
Research groups and interests
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Secretary of the Jacobite Studies Trust
- Member of the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society
- Member of the British Academy ECR Network (Scotland)
- Member of the Scottish History Society
- Member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance, UHI
Selected publications
Details available on UHI's PURE webpages: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/persons/nicola-martin