Christopher Allan Whatley FRSE FRHistS OBE is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian.
[1][2][3] Whatley left school at 16 years of age,[4] and worked as a shop assistant and semi-skilled machine operator[4] before attending night classes and taking Highers at Clydebank College[4] in order to obtain a place at the University of Strathclyde.
[4] He graduated with a BA in Economic History in 1972, and completed his PhD there in 1975 on the process of industrialisation in Ayrshire.
[5] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to Scottish history education.
[8] His papers are held by Archive Services at the University of Dundee, along with a collection of material relating to the Act of Union that he compiled with Derek Patrick during the writing of The Scots and the Union (published 2006).