Atle L. Wold

Professor of British Studies

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PhD-coordinator

I am responsible for the PhD-programme at ILOS.

Academic Interests

I am a historian by training, and most of my research has been on eighteenth-century British history, with a main focus on Scotland in the 1790s. In more recent years, I have taken an interest in privateering in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries, and particularly in the question of how neutral nations should relate to the privateers of the belligerents.

Alongside my historical work, I take a keen interest in contemporary Scottish (and British) politics; first and foremost with respect to questions of constitutional reform and devolution in the UK. In the on-going EURONOR-project, I study perceptions of Norden and the Nordic model in contemporary Scotland.

Teaching

British studies, teaching the following courses:

Higher education and employment history

I hold a Ph.D. British history from the University of Edinburgh, 2003.

Before joining the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages to teach British Studies in 2005, I worked for a year at the University of Stavanger, teaching general European history.

Tags: English, British Studies, Great Britain, British history, British politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Eighteenth Century, Privateering, Nordic model

Published July 2020:

Privateering and Diplomacy, 1793-1807: Great Britain, Denmark-Norway and the Question of Neutral Ports

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Wold, Atle (2015). Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794. In Pentland, Gordon & Davis, Michael T. (Ed.), Liberty, Property and Popular Politics: England and Scotland, 1688-1815. Essays in Honour of H. T. Dickinson. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474405676. p. 163–175. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474405676.003.0012.
Wold, Atle (2007). Loyalism in Scotland in the 1790s. In Broich, Ullrich; Dickinson, H. T.; Hellmuth, Eckhart & Schmidt, Martin (Ed.), Reactions to Revolutions: The 1790s and their Aftermath. LIT Verlag. ISSN 978-3-8258-7427-8. p. 109–136.
Wold, Atle (2006). Britain 1603-1815. In Mustad, Jan Erik & Rahbek, Ulla (Ed.), A Short Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 82-450-0385-9. p. 67–98.
Wold, Atle (2006). L'Écosse et la Révolution française. Annales historiques de la Révolution française. ISSN 0003-4436. 342(4), p. 145–158.
Wold, Atle (2005). Scottish Attitudes to Military Mobilisation and War in the 1790s. In Harris, Bob (Eds.), Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution. John Donald. p. 140–163.

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Wold, Atle L. (2020). Privateering and Diplomacy, 1793-1807: Great Britain, Denmark-Norway and the Question of Neutral Ports. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-45185-1. 248 p.
Wold, Atle (2015). Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474403313. 234 p.

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Wold, Atle L. & Moland, Petter (2020). NRK P2, podcast: "Krig og Fred", tema: "Kan Skottland gå solo?". [Radio]. Oslo.
Valø, Mats & Wold, Atle L. (2020). NRK P2, Studio 2, "Keep Calm and Carry on". [Radio]. Oslo.
Wold, Atle L. (2019). Vil Skottland igjen kreve folkeavstemning om selvstendighet? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. p. 20–21.
Wold, Atle L. (2019). Unionsstaten vokser frem, 1603-1922.
Wold, Atle L. (2019). 'What Scotland can learn': A Study of the Organisation Nordic Horizons.
Heiervang, Camilla Helen & Wold, Atle L. (2018). 'Brexit synliggjorde gamle motsetninger. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
Person, Aksel F & Wold, Atle L. (2018). Norgesglasset, NRK Radio P1. [Radio]. nrk.no.
Wold, Atle L. & Trovåg, Einar Orten (2018). Naboane håper på England-fiasko: – Heilt uaktuelt å heie på dei. [Internet]. nrk.no.
Wold, Atle L. (2018). Scotland and Brexit: challenges and opportunities for the Scottish SNP Government.
Wold, Atle L. (2017). The View from Outside: A brief presentation of the EURONOR-Project (The Nordic Model in an Europeanised Context) at the University of Oslo.
Wold, Atle L. (2017). Rogue Courts at work in Scotland? En sammenligning av de skotske og engelske oppvigleri-rettssakene på 1790-tallet.
Wold, Atle L. (2015). Can Corbyn help rebuild Scottish Labour? British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 10(4).
Wold, Atle L. (2015). The Nordic Model in Scottish Politics: ideal or irrelevance?
Wold, Atle L. (2014). Skottland kan endre Storbritannia. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Wold, Atle L. (2014). The SNP and the art of cherry picking. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 9(2).
Wold, Atle L. (2013). When Britain ruled the waves - or a brief history of the battleship. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 8(1).
Wold, Atle (2012). Skottland mot selvstendighet, med Norge som modell? In Bratberg, Øivind & Haugevik, Kristin M. (Ed.), Det glemte partnerskapet? Norge og Storbritannia i et nytt århundre. Akademika forlag. ISSN 9788232101030. p. 111–123.
Wold, Atle (2012). Mot skotsk uavhengighet? Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
Wold, Atle (2011). Skottland mot selvstendighet, med Norge som modell? In Bratberg, Øivind & Haugevik, Kristin M. (Ed.), Det glemte partnerskapet? Norge og Storbritannia i et endret Europa. British Politics Society. ISSN 978-82-998915-0-9. p. 86–95. Show summary
Forholdet mellom Norge og Storbritannia har dype røtter både politisk og kulturelt, og omfatter i dag en lang rekke saksområder, institusjoner og individer. Samtidig er det norsk-britiske forholdet i dag gjenstand for nesten påfallende lite oppmerksomhet både i norsk og britisk offentlighet. Hvorfor er det slik? I denne rapporten setter vi fokus på båndene mellom Norge og Storbritannia, med hovedvekt på nåtidens relasjoner, men med et blikk bakover på den nære fortid. Gjennom ni bidrag forsøker vi å gi innblikk i ulike sider av det norsk-britiske forholdet, fra slektskapet mellom det norske og det britiske politiske system via utenriks- og energipolitiske bånd til kulturutveksling og forståelsen av Storbritannia i norsk presse og akademia.
Bratberg, Øivind & Wold, Atle (2010). Interpreting the result on 6 May. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 5(2), p. 8–8.
Wold, Atle L. (2010). Til valg mot systemet. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766.
Haugevik, Kristin M. & Wold, Atle (2009). Churchill the quotable. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 4(4).
Wold, Atle (2009). The controversial politician Margaret Thatcher. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 4(1).
Wold, Atle (2007). The Union of 1707 and the government of Scotland. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 2(1), p. 5–6.
Wold, Atle (2007). British identity - then and now. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 2(1).
Wold, Atle (2007). The Scotsman Gordon Brown. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 2(3).
Wold, Atle (2006). Devolution: New Labour's calculated gamble? British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 1(1).
Wold, Atle (2006). Sierra Leone: the ideal type of efficient intervention? British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 1(2).