Callum Brown (author)

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Callum G. Brown (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish historian and author.

He specialises in the history of secularisation, Christianity, and organised humanism in the United Kingdom.

Life

He was born on 6 April 1953 and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He currently resides in Scotland.

Career

He is currently a professor of history at the University of Glasgow. He has had previous posts at both Dundee University and the University of Strathclyde. In 2020 he celebrated his 30th year in the industry. .^[1]

He has frequently collaborated with Arthur McIvor.^[2][3]

Select publications

His books have received mostly positive reviews. Some of his notable books are:^[4][5][6] His book Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998) won the 1999 Frank Watson Book Prize.^[7]

• Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland
• The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000
• Postmodernism for Historians
• Britain Since 1707
• Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
• The People In The Pews: Religion And Society In Scotland Since 1780
• The University Experience 1945-1975: An Oral History of the University of Strathclyde
• Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West
• The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945-1980