Alvin Jackson

Alvin Jackson is Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at University College Dublin, Boston College, and Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of eight books, including United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925 (2023), and is the general editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (2014). Jackson is an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of...See more

Alvin Jackson is Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at University College Dublin, Boston College, and Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of eight books, including United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925 (2023), and is the general editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (2014). Jackson is an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the British Academy. See less