Julian Grant was a teenager when he arrived in the UK as a keen undergraduate 13 years ago. A student of modern history at the University of St Andrews, the US-born student fell for Scotland’s charm. Nine months after his degree, in 2017, Julian returned to do a master’s in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow and has lived continuously in Britain ever since.
Though he grew up in New Hampshire and Vermont, Julian has dedicated himself to studying and preserving Scottish history, completing a PhD on the impact of the tourism route, the North Coast 500 – a famous driving route in the Highlands – as well as volunteering to preserve a local church building near his home in Edinburgh. Such is his adoption of Scottish life that he speaks with a soft Scottish accent. He’s even a season ticket holder at the Hibernian football club.
