Colin Kidd's guest appearances

Colin Kidd

Lectures in Intellectual History

Benjamin Franklin

Tom Jones

Ryan Hanley

James Harris

David Hume

David Weinstein

Philip Schofield

Jeremy Bentham

George Berkeley

Nick Phillipson

Jacqueline Rose

Katrina Forrester

Quentin Skinner

Susan James

Joanne Paul

OwlTail

Colin Kidd is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. This interview focusses on his book The World of Mr Casaubon - Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870 (Cambridge, 2016).

Special Edition: Interview with Colin Kidd

Douglas Young

2013 sees the centenary of the birth of Douglas Young, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Scottish nationalism. Leader of the SNP from 1942 to the end of the Second World War, Young was imprisoned twice for refusing conscription – both military and industrial. He was also an eminent classicist, who translated some of the plays of Aristophanes into Lallans (Lowland Scots). In this lecture, Colin Kidd investigates Young's chequered career, and examine the broader context of the curious Scottish nationalist response to the world crisis of the 1940s.

Colin Kidd - The Trials of Douglas Young: Hitler, Aristophanes and the SNP