Colin Whittemore

Colin Whittemore started life on a small family farm in England before embarking on a career as an agricultural research scientist. He has written a number of popular books on the lives of farming people and a social history (including A Kindly Winter, A Living from the Edinburgh Countryside, and Newlands) and also has a number of academic books to his name. He is Emeritus Professor of Agriculture, University of Edinburgh and Accreditation Chair of the British Society of Animal Science.