Paul Philippou

Dr Paul S. Philippou is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Dundee, where his main research interest is Scottish political history. He is Joint Director of 'Words of War' - Perth's Book Festival, 21-22 September 2019.

Recent Publications: ‘Mutually Hostile Parties?: the co- operative movement in Perth and its relationship with the labour movement, 1871-1918’, Scottish Labour History (2016), 'The Fruits of Long Years of Propaganda and Unremitting Effort: Labour's "Breakthrough' in Scotland in 1922', Scottish labour History (2018)

Recent Media: BBC Radio Scotland, Time Travels Series 4 - Eunice Guthrie Murray ~ Duchess of Atholl (November/December 2018); BBC Radio Scotland, Women with a Past, Series 2 - Helen Crawfurd (2014) ~ PBS USA The Scots who Fought Franco (2018).

Recent Book: Scott's Fair City. The Fair Maid of Perth & Sir Walter Scott (2018).

Forthcoming Book: William Soutar: Complete Works, Volume 1: Poetry (2019).

On-going Research: 'Eunice Guthrie Murray - only woman to stand in Scotland in the 1918 General Election'. 'The Cyprus Struggle for Independence 1956-9 - EOKA prisoners of war in British prisons'.

Paul is the driving force behind madeinperth.org, Perthshire’s local history website. He lives in Perth, Scotland with his wife Mary, a trade union official, and Cocoa Crunchie, the family's pet 'Working Cocker Spaniel'.