Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan, FBA,

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(17 October 1926 – 20 December 2017) was a Scottish

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. From 1962 to 1993 he was Professor of Scottish History and Literature at the

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. On giving up his professorship, he became Clerk of Senate and Dean of Faculties, retiring from the university in 2000. From 2001 he was Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Literature, but continued to publish on the history of Scotland in the

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Select bibliography

* ''Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973. * ''The Kingship of the Scots: Succession and Independence 842–1292.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

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biographical note 2017 deaths 1926 births Academics of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Scottish historians Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-historian-stub