Library fundraiser launched in memory of Edinburgh historian Neil Davidson
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Mr Davidson was a prominent left wing academic and campaigner who authored seven books in his lifetime, including ‘The Origins of Scottish Nationhood’ (2000) and ‘How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?’ (2012).
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Hide AdHe was a founder of the Edinburgh Campaign Against War which protested Nato actions in the Balkans as well as RISE, a campaigning organisation for Scottish independence.
Mr Davidson worked for many years as a civil servant and wrote and campaigned about socialism in his spare time.
He left the civil service to be an academic, eventually becoming a respected professor of sociology at Glasgow University.
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Hide AdThe Neil Davidson library project aims to house his large collection of rare books and periodicals, and provide ‘a space for working class and socialist movements in Scotland’.
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