Dr. Richard Lockton

I specialize in early modern British and Atlantic History, and my main interests are in the intersection of war, culture, and consumerism in the eighteenth-century British Empire. In addition to my research and teaching interests in the British Empire, I am also interested in and teach about early modern European imperialism, cultures of warfare in early modern Europe, popular and intellectual culture in the European era of the “witch craze” and Scientific Revolution, and histories of gender and identity between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolutions. I also have research and teaching interests in information and media revolutions from the printing press to the digital age.

I hold a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University Bloomington and my undergraduate degree is in Philosophy and Anthropology from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

My book, Highlanders: Forging Entangled Nations, 1688-1783 is under advanced contract and undergoing peer review with McGill-Queen’s University Press.

I have also published the following articles:

“Inter-imperial ’45: War, Geopolitics, and the Entanglements of Rebellion, 1745-1763”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 50, no. 3 (2022): 443-477, https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2021.1985217

“The Scottish Militia Issue and the Anxious Origins of Highlandism, 1759-1762”, The Scottish Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2024): 77-106, https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2024.0642

“The Scottish Militia Issue and the Anxious Origins of Highlandism, 1759-1762”

The Scottish Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2024): 77-106,