James Crawford

James Crawford is a writer and broadcaster, and the publisher at Historic Environment Scotland. Born in the Shetlands in 1978, he studied History and Philosophy of Law at the University of Edinburgh, winning the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize. James’s first major work of non-fiction was the critically-acclaimed Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of the World’s Greatest Lost Buildings which was shortlisted for the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. He has previously written a number of photographic books, including Above Scotland, Victorian Scotland, Scotland’s Landscapes, and Aerofilms: A History of Britain from Above. In 2018 he scripted and presented ‘Scotland From the Sky’ a landmark, three-part BBC One documentary series. He lives in Edinburgh.

In 2022, Canongate Books published his latest book of non-fiction, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World.