British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Hamish Scott
Professor of International History, University of St Andrews

Year elected: 2006

He is the leading British authority on the international and diplomatic history of 17th and 18th century Europe. He has also orchestrated important comparative work on nobilities and has been a pioneering figure in reappraising perennial topics such as Enlightened Absolutism. His range, based in very broad archival study and exploiting literature in many languages, covers all the major eastern and western European states.