Anthony Cooke

Anthony Cooke was born in Lancashire and was educated at local schools and Manchester University. After teaching in the West Indies, he taught Scottish economic and social history at Dundee University, mainly in continuing education. He served as Editor of the Scottish Journal of Adult Education for ten years. With the Open University, he developed a Distance Learning course in Modern Scottish History and co-edited five textbooks, published in 1998.

He worked as Historical Consultant to Historic Scotland on the Heritage Lottery funded restoration of Stanley Mills, Perthshire, which opened in 2008. Recent publications include 'The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry' (Manchester, 2010) and 'An Elite Revisited: Glasgow West India Merchants, 1783-1914', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, (2012). He has recently published 'A History of Drinking. The Scottish Pub since 1700', (Edinburgh, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's History Book of the Year Award. His most recent publication is a revised and expanded second edition of 'Stanley:From Arkwright Village to Commuter Suburb, 1784-2015', published by Grace Note Publications.