MacPherson the Historian

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Dr Mairi MacPherson is an academic and museum expert based in the Scottish Highlands, where she has published extensively on the works of James Macpherson and, together with Jim, redesigned the Clan Macpherson Museum in Newtonmore. Jim MacPherson is Programme Leader for MLitt British Studies, Postgraduate Research Co-Ordinator and Lecturer in History at The Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands.

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The first study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) as an historian examines his published works, showing how he was an Enlightement historian interweaving ideas of narrative, philosophy, with debates about commercial modernity and empire.