Colin Craig Kidd OBE FRSE FSA Scot FRHistS FBA[1] (born 5 May 1964) is a historian who specialises in American and Scottish history.
Kidd was an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before winning the Prize Fellowship at All Souls, Oxford University to complete his Doctor of Philosophy.
[4] Before St Andrews, Kidd held fellowships at Belfast, Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard Universities.
[6][7] His own literary works include: Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689–1830 (1993); British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 (1999); The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000 (2006); and Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500–2000 (2008).
[8] Kidd was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to history, culture and politics.