Introduction
David Turnock (1938–2011) was a Scottish historian and author specialising in European geography and economic history.
Life
He was born on 19 August 1938 in Wigan, Lancashire, England to Frederick Stanley Turnock and Dorothy Hallows.[11]
He was married to Edith Marion Bean and has two children.
He died in Rutland in 2011.
Education
He completed his bachelor's degree and master's degree in arts at the University of Cambridge. He later went to do a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge in 1964.
Career
He has worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He has worked as a lecturer at the University of Leicester. In 2009, he became an emeritus professor.
He is most well known for setting up the Socialist Geographies Research Group within the Royal Geographical Society. He has also contributed (as a historian and author) to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Selected publications
His notable books include:
- Scotland's Highlands And Islands
- The Human Geography of East Central Europe
- Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
- The Making of the Scottish Rural Landscape