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Canterbury, Belfast (Queen's University), etc. University of Amsterdam, University of
Bremen.

External examinerships at various Universities in History (Modern, American,
Canadian, African), and Literature (English and American):

United Kingdom.
Undergraduate: Aberdeen; Queen's University, Belfast; Hull; Leicester; Liverpool;
Manchester; Nottingham; Wales (Colleges at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Swansea)
Postgraduate: Aberdeen; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; Lampeter (St. David's
College); Leeds; Liverpool; London; Manchester; Nottingham; the Open University;
Oxford; Reading; Sheffield, Swansea; York.

Africa.
Undergraduate: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi; Nigeria (Ibadan); Sudan
(Khartoum); Swaziland; Zimbabwe
Postgraduate: Ghana (Legon); Malawi; Nigeria (Ibadan); South Africa
(Rhodes University, Grahamstown); Zimbabwe,

Canada.
Postgraduate: British Columbia (Simon Fraser); Consultant for the Ontario
Council on Graduate Studies Appraisals Committee, 1986,
United States.
Postgraduate: Michigan State University.

India.
Postgraduate: Bihar and Orissa (Berhampur; Bhalgalpur; Patna; TJtka1).

Membership of Public Bodies in the United Kingdom.
1965-68: Member of Studentship Selection Committee (Department of Education and
1970-73: Science) for Hayter (area studies) candidates President of the St. Andrew Society
of Edinburgh.
1971-76: Dean of the Scottish Universities Summer School
1971-74: Chairman of the British Association for American Studies
1971: Chairman of the Mungo Park Bicentenary Committee
1973: Chairman of the David Livingstone Documentation Project, National
Library of Scotland.
1973: Chairman of the Commonwealth Institute, Scotland.
1975-80: British Council Committee for Commonwealth University Interchange
1975: History advisor to Commonwealth Scholarships Commission.
1976: Member of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
Member of the Councils of the British Association for Canadian Studies,
the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, and the Royal
African Society.

Conferences etc.
A wide variety of conferences organized and attended include:
• Tropical African Studies Conference, International African Institute, Ibadan,
Nigeria, April 1964.
• Malawi IV Peace Corps Training Programme, Harvard University, June - July
1964 (staff member).
• First conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom to
be held in Scotland, Edinburgh, 21—24 September 1966 (organizer).

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