Biography

Dr Simon Buck is a part-time Lecturer in Public History at Keele. He is an historian of Britain, America and the Atlantic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. He has worked with NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Episcopal Church on public history projects on Scottish entanglements with Atlantic slavery.

Research and scholarship

He has published widely, including recent articles in Social History of Medicine and the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and is co-editor of a forthcoming edited collection, Race, Empire and the Edinburgh Medical School, with Edinburgh University Press.

Teaching

HIS 30103 Independent Study Project; HIS-20123 History in the Headlines; HIS-20129 Themes, Debates and Sources in History; HIS-40092 The Theory and Practice of History; HIS-20141 Professional Experience with History; HIS-10050 Defining Moments

Publications

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School and college outreach
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