Charles McKean

Charles McKean (born 16 July 1946) is Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee.

Charles McKean was formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Educated at Fettes College, the University of Poitiers (Tours), and the University of Bristol, from 1977 to 1983 he was the architecture critic of the Times.^[1] McKean has published a number of articles reconstructing the career of the 16th century courtier and master of work James Hamilton of Finnart. Charles McKean is chairman of the board of Edinburgh World Heritage Trust.^[2]

Publications

• Fight Blight, Littlehampton Book Services,(1977) ISBN 0 7182 1150 2
• The Scottish Thirties, Scottish Academic Press, (1987) ISBN 0 7073 0494 6
• Edinburgh, an illustrated guide, Rutland Press, (1992) ISBN 0 9501 4624 2
• 'Craignethan: the Castle of the Bastard of Arran' PSAS, 125 (1995), pp. 1069-1090.
• The Making of the Museum of Scotland, NMS, (2000)
• The Scottish Château: the Country House of the Scottish Renaissance, Sutton Publishing (2001) ISBN 0 7509 2323 7
• Battle for the North: The Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th-Century Railway Wars, Granta (2006) ISBN 1 86207 852 1
• Lost Dundee, Dundee's lost architectural heritage, with Patricia Whatley, Birlinn (2008)
• Dundee, 1600-1800, Dundee University Press, (2010)

External links

• History Scotland review of The Scottish Château, by Miles Glendinning, 2001
• Guardian review of Battle for the North, 19 August 2006

References

1. ^ The Scottish Château, (2001), jacket.
2. ^ Edinburgh World Heritage Trust board