Kirsteen M MacKenzie is an academic historian. Her areas of interest are British and Irish history from 1603-1707. Her academic research mainly focuses on the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 but she also has wider research interests in the Jacobites and Louis XIV. Dr MacKenzie received a PhD in history from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Her first monograph The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union 1643-1663 was published by Routledge in 2017. Her work has also been published in various journals and magazines including, International Review of Scottish Studies, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods and History Scotland. Dr MacKenzie is a qualified higher education teacher obtaining her PGCertHE in 2014. She went on to teach at the Universities of Dundee and Aberdeen before establishing her own business History Gateway Limited.