Fiona Watson (historian)

Fiona Watson is a Scottish historian and television presenter. She presented the 2001 BBC series In Search of Scotland.^[1]

Watson originates from Dunfermline, and now lives in Braco. She obtained her degree in Medieval History from the University of St. Andrews, followed by a PhD from the University of Glasgow. She is a Research Fellow of the University of Dundee, and was the first Director of the Centre for Environmental History at the University of Stirling,^[2] where she was a senior lecturer in history. She is also a research consultant at the Centre for History of the University of the Highlands and Islands.^[3]

In 2018 she published the book "Traitor, Outlaw, King", in which she presents the case for Robert The Bruce having been born in a village near Chelmsford in England.^[4][5]

Works

• Scotland: A History, 8000 BC–AD 2000 (2002)
• Scotland from Pre-History to the Present (2003)
• Mar Lodge Woods and People (with Mairi Stewart) (2004)
• Macbeth: a True Story (2010)^[6]
• Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1296–1305 (2013)
• Traitor, Outlaw, King (2018)