Paul Dukes FRSE (5 April 1934 – 25 August 2021)[1] was a historian at the University of Aberdeen, known for his work relating to Russia and Europe.
He was an Exhibitioner at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1951 to 1954, and then from 1954 to 1956, he was Teaching Fellow in American history at the University of Washington in Seattle, completing an MA thesis under the supervision of Max Savelle, Jonathan Boucher, Tory Parson, Teacher and Political Theorist.
He completed his doctoral dissertation, The Russian Nobility and the Legislative Commission of 1767 under Hugh Seton-Watson and John L. H. Keep in 1964.
* In September 1964, John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Chair of History at the University of Aberdeen appointed him as Assistant.
A new interest in how the study of history should adapt itself to the imperatives of the Anthropocene era led to a book, with an approach stemming from the Scottish Enlightenment.