HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. — 128 p. A concise and excellent guide to Scottish history and how Scotland has come to be the country it is today. From prehistoric Scotland to the 2014 referendum for independence, this little book covers all the main events throughout Scotland's history. Included are key events, such as the Union of Crowns and Burns Night; important people,...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0748624317; ISBN13: 978-0748624317 — (A History of Everyday Life in Scotland EUP. Book 4) Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 289 p. This book offers gendered perspectives on the main themes in Scottish history since 1700. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised but that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind, to assume that the processes of nation-making have...
Routledge, 2018. — 302 p. The traditional preoccupation with Highlands of Scotland has led historians and geographers to neglect the study of her towns and cities. Yet they possess a unique history and are totally unlike the rest of Britain's urban centers. This book traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins right up to the problems and opportunities of the...
Boydell Press, 2000. — 272 p. The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made. The seventeenth century was one of the...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2019. — 194 p. Arran Water , the term for whisky distilled illicitly on the Isle of Arran, was revered for its quality throughout Scotland during the heydays of smuggling in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Despite this reputation, Arran s rich distilling past has long been forgotten, cast into the shadows of more illustrious whisky-making...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 224 p. In the Enlightenment it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this “enlightened” emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on arguments from reason alone than has been believed. In fact, Scottish Enlightenment champions...
Birlinn, 2012. — 228 p. This revolution of 'improvement' helped shape the landscape we accept today as the Scottish countryside. But it also swept aside a traditional way of life, causing immense upheaval and trauma for rural dwellers, many of whom moved to the new towns and cities or emigrated. In the later eighteenth century the simple act of losing land and becoming landless...
Routledge, 2001. — 228 p. This is an introduction to Scottish history in the 18th which is completely up-to-date and gives equal emphasis to politics and religion. Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland it was emerging as an economic powerhouse, a major colonial power and an internationally acclaimed center...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 395 p. The distinctiveness and influence of Scotland's educational institutions have played a significant role in the construction of national identity. This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with...
Routledge, 2020. — 304 p. Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650. In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in...
Pluto Press, 2020. — 280 p. Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a corrupt and nepotistic parliament, and the aristocratic government that refused to reform it. This...
Verso, 2014. — 374 p. In September 2014, the people of Scotland will decide whether - after 407 years of British rule - they want to be an independent country. Chris Bambery, a leading figure in the Scottish Independence campaign, seizes the opportunity to delve into the real and oft-forgotten history of Scotland. A People's History of Scotland is a corrective to the usual...
Edited by Dauvit Broun and Martin MacGregor. — Birlinn,, 2016. — 320 p. John Bannerman saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote...
3rd Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 1988. — 530 p. The story of how Robert Bruce outwitted Edward I, the shrewd and ruthless King of England, defeated his son Edward II, and in doing so regained Scotland's independence. Professor Barrow describes the dazzling and tragic career of William Wallace, the English military occupation of Scotland that was its consequence, and...
Brill, 2013. — 305 p. — (SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature 20). Although a number of publications have appeared in recent years marking the importance of the 'swinging sixties', many tend to be personally reflective in nature and London-centric in their coverage. By contrast, The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? addresses this...
Birlinn, 2016. — 416 p. Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trails for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working-class revolution vanished from the historical record. This...
Edinburgh University Press, 1997. — 239 p. David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 372 p. This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority. The regime which emerges from these records is one which understood the power of consultation, adroitly using a range of groups from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 372 p. This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority. The regime which emerges from these records is one which understood the power of consultation, adroitly using a range of groups from...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 377 p. Essays by leading scholars on kingship and lordship in late medieval and early modern Scotland and Britain. Late medieval and early modern Scottish history has seen much recent work on 'kingship' and 'lordship'. But the 15th century and the 16th century are usually studied separately. This book brings them together in a fitting...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 257 p. The experience of being a Muslim in Scotland today is shaped by the global and national post-9/11 shift in public attitudes towards Muslims, and is infused by the particular social, cultural and political Scottish ways of dealing with minorities, diversity and integration. This book explores the settlement and development of Muslim...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 459 p. Mary, Queen of Scots was the only daughter of James V, King of Scotland. She was a few days old when she acceded to the throne upon his death. A devout Catholic, Mary grew up in France and was both married and widowed there. She returned to Scotland, a country split between Catholics and Protestants, and in political turmoil. However, she soon...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 304 p. In early modern Scotland, religious and constitutional tensions created by Protestant reform and regal union stimulated the expression and regulation of opinion at large. Karin Bowie explores the rising prominence and changing dynamics of Scottish opinion politics in this tumultuous period. Assessing protestations, petitions, oaths,...
B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1996. — 128 p. Two thousand years ago the Roman army, one of the world's most successful fighting machines, set out to conquer Scotland. Three invasions were attempted and each ended in withdrawal. These forays have left their mark on today's landscape in the form of impressive earthworks - the remains of forts and frontiers constructed by the army,...
The History Press, 2014. — 224 p. Scotland's Castles is a beautifully illustrated celebration and account of the renaissance of Scottish castles that has taken place since 1950. Over 100 ruined and derelict buildings – from tiny towers to rambling baronial mansions – have been restored as homes, hotels and holiday lets. These restorations have mainly been carried out by new...
Batsford, 2003. — 128 p. — (Historic Scotland). — ISBN: 0-7134-8748-8. Urquhart Castle is one of Scotland’s best-known sites, an instantly recognizable symbol of the Highlands: its shattered tower rises high over Loch Ness. It, and the Great Glen on which it stands, also played a large role in the country’s history. Using physical evidence found on the grounds, this colorful...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 328 p. The answers put forward in this book provide a fresh perspective on Scotland's relationship with Britain. Broun challenges the idea that the Scots were an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged later on, in the early modern era, and provides new evidence that the idea of Scotland as an independent kingdom in actual fact...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 1998. — 280 p. — ISBN 978-0-333-74708-7 The electoral events of 1997 necessitate a revision of the edition that first appeared as recently as 1996. The return of a Labour Government for the first time in 18 years would, on its own, have made a difference to Scottish politics. But added to that were two unprecedented further massive...
Mark Smith, 2019. — 224 p. Explore the History of Scotland From Start to End. Are you interested in the romance and drama of Scottish history? Are tales of Robert the Bruce and the wars against England just footnotes in your wider historical knowledge? This book provides a concise and impressive chronicle! Scotland has always held a fascination for people around the world. from...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 289 p. — ISBN10 0748638776. — ISBN13 9780748638772. An historically and critically sound - and contemporary - evaluation of tartan and tartanry based on proper contextualisation and coherent analysis. This critical re-evaluation of one of the more controversial aspects of recent debates on Scottish culture draws together contributions from...
Macmillan Education, 1992. — 236 p. Political Institutions. Political Elites. Political Ideas. The Imperial Experiment, 1603–1637. Revolution, War And Conquest, 1637–1660. Restoring the Kingdom, 1660–1688. Scotland and the British Revolution, 1688–1715.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 239 p.
Introduction: Writing Across the Borders.
The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century.
Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear.
Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border in Sir Thomas Gray’s...
Harper Collins Books, 2014. — 464 p. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics all of which continue to echo loudly...
HarperCollins, 2003. — 448 p. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater synonymous with poverty and disease, and recently famous for religious persecution. When this small walled-off city surrendered to a handful of Highlanders in 1745, things had never looked bleaker. Yet by century's end, the ancient Scottish capital had become the marvel of modern...
Birlinn, 2011. — 89 p. Robert the Bruce and All That is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland's warrior king. Gallop alongside King Robert the Bruce as he takes up the quest to free the Scots from terrifying King Edward and his bumbling son, Edward II. Voyage with Bruce to the mysterious islands of the west, and read about the secret plan to win over...
Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 1998. — 104 p. — (Discovering Historic Scotland). — ISBN: 011495786X. In this history of Scotland's wars and warriors, famous names and battle honors are scattered through a text that shows the reality of warfare over times that are the stuff of song and fable. From Caledonians resisting Rome to Anglo-Scottish knights practiced in chivalry,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2002. — 338 p. Volume 2 describes the Clan's recovery. Within five years Colin, 3rd Earl, was Vice-Regent and Lieutenant of the kingdom. Within five decades the Clan had extended their possessions to the Western Isles, reinforced their Highland dominance, and become the most powerful family in the nation. How they managed to remain so for a century...
Bloomsbury USA, 2009. — 120 p.
The Scottish warrior has throughout history been armed with some of the most famous and instantly recognisable weapons and armour ever produced. From the majestic Highland two-handed sword and the diminutive sgian dhu that tucks into the sock of every Scotsman in formal dress to the distinctive leather shield or targe, these objects are redolent...
Pen & Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. The flight of King James II in November 1688 was a seminal moment in British history. The deposed Catholic King set up house and home in Paris, William and Mary succeeded to the throne of England and over fifty years of trouble, strife, war and execution began to consume England, Scotland and Ireland. The Jacobites – supporters of the...
Brill, 2006. — 257 p. — (The Northern World, Volume 20). This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way to addressing the imbalance in Highland historiography...
Birlinn Ltd., 2012. — 240 p. Covering a thousand years of Scottish history, this account incorporates both historical and contemporary research into old theories and controversies. During the first millennium AD, the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the...
Birlinn Ltd., 2012. — 480 p. Following the story of the Britons through the troubled centuries between 400 and 1100, this salient account reveals the critical role these native Celtic people played in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium ADand how, unlike the Picts and the Vikings, their place in history has often been ignored. Studying the rise and fall of...
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 225 p. Although Mary, Queen of Scots continues to fascinate both historians and the general public alike, the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into the powerful and ambitious Lorraine family, spending her formative years at the dazzling and licentious court of Francois I....
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 208 p. This book exposes ever-changing attitudes to Scotland's national heroes, from Wallace the unionist paragon to Knox the national hero. At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, James Coleman sheds light on how Scotland's national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 240 p. Explores the enduring legacy of Jacobitism, its influence, and its romantic revival across Europe. For most people, the story of the Jacobites perished on a bitter April day in 1746 when their hopes of restoring the exiled Stuart monarchy at the battle of Culloden were crushed. Beyond this military defeat, which marked the end of the ’45...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 240 p. Explores the enduring legacy of Jacobitism, its influence, and its romantic revival across Europe. For most people, the story of the Jacobites perished on a bitter April day in 1746 when their hopes of restoring the exiled Stuart monarchy at the battle of Culloden were crushed. Beyond this military defeat, which marked the end of the ’45...
Edinburgh University Press, 2002. — 279 p. — ISBN: 0-7486-1420-6. This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped history to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament. Dauvit Broun, Fiona Watson, and Steve Boardman explore the violent...
Mainstream Publishing, 2010. — 329 p. They were modern men: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, shoemakers and shopkeepers, farmers, gardeners and weavers. Children of the Age of Reason, they wrote poetry, discussed the latest ideas in philosophy and science – and rose in armed rebellion against the might of the British crown and government.Sons of a restless nation...
Mainstream Publishing, 2005. — 212 p. Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historians have ignored female participation in the '45- this book aims to redress the balance. Drawn from many original documents and letters, the...
Birlinn Ltd., 2020. — 272 p. In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air. It was the culmination of several years of unrest, which had seen huge mass meetings in Glasgow and...
Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St. Andrews, 1998. — 134 p. The Fourth St Andrews Day Conference focussed on a theme which was rather different from the previous three ("Scotland in Dark Age Europe", 1994; "Scotland in Dark Age Britain", 1996: "The Uses of Place-Names", 1998): it was the processes involved in the change to Christianity which occurred throughout the...
Pegasus, 2018. — 276 p. Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty moors and literary genius. But Scotland has also been a place of brutal crime, terrifying murder, child abuse, and bank robbery. From the southern border to the Northern Isles, suspicion and suspense are never far away. Edinburgh, with its reputation for civility and elegance, has often been...
Birlinn, 2015. — 238 p. Under Crofton's collector's eye, the rollicking spirit of Scotland, old and modern, comes proudly alive' - Sunday Herald Scottish History without the Boring Bits offers a colourful melange of the bawdy, the bloody, the horrific and the hilarious episodes and characters that have spattered the pages of our nation's story. From the War of the One-Eyed...
Chatus & Windus, London, 1889. — 429 p. Excerpt from Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland The following pages may be regarded as a contribution towards that ‘History of Human Error’ which was undertaken by Mr. Augustine Caxton. I fear that many minds will have to devote all their energies to the work, if it is ever to be...
Pluto Press, 2003. — 395 p. This major new work of historical scholarship offers a groundbreaking reassessment of Scottish politics and society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century that is set to become a standard work on the subject. Neil Davidson argues that Scotland experienced a revolution during this period that has rarely been recognised in the existing...
Pluto Press, 2000. — 270 p. The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new state through separate institutions of religion...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 320 p. — (New Edinburgh History of Scotland). From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the story of the Scotland is told from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. This book explains how the country was re-formed as the relationship between...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 320 p. — (New Edinburgh History of Scotland). From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the story of the Scotland is told from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. This book explains how the country was re-formed as the relationship between...
University of Stirling, 2013. — 428 p. This inter-disciplinary thesis addresses the long term continuity and change found in representations of Scottish royal authority through state ceremonial bridging the gap between medieval and early modern across four centuries. Royal ceremony in Scotland has received very haphazard research to date, with few attempts to draw comparisons...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 350 p. This pioneering book tells the story of urban development in Scotland over the course of a millennium, drawing on original research into more than thirty towns, from the smallest settlements to major cities. The changes in urban society came at different times and at different paces for most towns and many had to withstand crisis after...
Penguin, 2017. — 320 p. There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Middle Ages onwards the island of Britain has been shaped by the unique dynamic between Edinburgh and London, exchanging inhabitants, monarchs, money and ideas, sometimes in a spirit of friendship and at others in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 256 p. A comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union, this book is written by the cream of the academic talent in modern Scottish history and Scottish politics. It appeals to a wide readership while conforming to the highest standards of scholarship and no other volume considers the entire...
Penguin, 2012. — 440 p. In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across the globe as soldiers and...
Penguin Books Limited, 2012. — 784 p. The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 324 p. This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East....
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 720 p. Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic...
Penguin Books, 2018. — 496 p. Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change: traditional and customary relationships were overturned and replaced...
Penguin Books, 2012. — 784 p. The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an international...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 278 p. The first book to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland’s slavery past. For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland’s connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in...
University of Georgia Press, 1994. — 280 p. Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 188 p. What is Scottish Identity? What is Scottish Language? Newspapers and their Readers. A Limited Identity. A Multifaceted and Formulaic Identity. A Changing Identity?
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 231 p. Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, this is the first study to link together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures, presenting a relatively unknown body of...
The History Press, 2012. — 288 p. This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland. Written by one of the most authoritative figures on the subject, the work is based on established genealogical practice and is designed to exploit the rich resources that Scotland has to offer. After all, this...
Humanities Press, 1987. — 204 p. This study explores the moral characteristics of late eighteenth-century Scottish culture in order to ascertain both its specific nature and its contribution to modern consciousness. It argues that, while the language of moral discourse in that socio-economic environment remained in large part traditional, containing aspects from both...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 320 p. More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2003. — 336 p. This book charts the environmental transformation of Scotland from the end of the ice age in an empty land 10,000 years ago to the Viking invasions of an established society 9,000 years later. When the icefields and glaciers disappeared forests covered the land and sea level rose to create the Hebridean islands. Elk, aurochs, bear,...
Harper Collins, 1986. — 264 p. Feudalism came to Lowland Scotland and parts of the Highlands almost as early as it did in England and in many senses, the Scottish baronial house with its resident laird, occupies a comparable historical position to that of the English manor house. In this illuminating study of the architecture and history of some 120 baronial houses Hubert...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 545 p. In this volume a range of distinguished contributors provide an original analysis of the book in Scotland during a period that has been until now greatly under-researched and little understood. The issues covered by this volume include the professionalisation of publishing, its scale, technological developments, the role of the state,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 352 p. The experiences of everyday Scotland has undergone profound political, religious, and economic change over the past two centuries. This team of authors examine how far the extraordinary has impinged on the Scottish ordinary and the extent to which population growth, urbanization, agricultural developments, and political and religious...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. — 432 p. From the 13th century to the middle of the 16th, outlaws and “border lords” reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life, and power was held by the notorious border reivers: raiders and freebooters, plunderers and rustlers who robbed, murdered, and...
HarperPress, 2012. — 448 p. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. Determined to seek his fortune with the exiled Jacobite king in France, Fraser acted as a spy for both the Stuarts and the Hanoverians; claimed to be both Protestant and Roman Catholic. In July 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie launched his last...
HarperPress, 2012. — 448 p. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. Determined to seek his fortune with the exiled Jacobite king in France, Fraser acted as a spy for both the Stuarts and the Hanoverians; claimed to be both Protestant and Roman Catholic. In July 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie launched his last...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 495 p. This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid scenes from all over the country, and ranges up and down the social scale from peeresses to...
Routledge, 1985. — 255 p. This is the story of a great nation. It is the history of the various peoples who have occupied the land of Scotland over the past 5000 years or more, how they got there, what they have done and what marks they have left upon the story of world civilization. It is an account of the deeds of men and women, great heroes and humble folk alike, who have...
Whittles Publishing, 2014. — 464 p. Written over five years, this engrossing and enlightening book stretches to over a quarter of a million words and is a fast paced read as it races through the exploits and achievements of an astonishing gallery of the Scots who make up this Scottish Empire. Although household names such as Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 290 p. The rise and fall of the British Empire profoundly shaped the history of modern Scotland and the identity of its people. From the Act of Union in 1707 to the dramatic fall of the British Empire following the Second World War, Scotland's involvement in commerce, missionary activity, cultural dissemination, emigration, and political action could...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 239 p. This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century. As the century dawned, the Scottish economy was still strongly connected with imperial infrastructures (like railways, engineering, construction and shipping), and colonial trade...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. — 312 p. As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland's politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring how the architecture of Scotland – in particular the constantly-changing ideal of the 'castle' – has been of great consequence to the ongoing narrative of Scottish national identity....
Boydell Press, 2011. — 214 p. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite...
Brill, 2008. — 500 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 166).
This collection of essays demonstrates the vitality of the political, cultural and religious history of Scotland in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes essays on politics, religion and towns, and on the literature and culture of the royal court and the common people. The essays all...
Manchester University Press, 2002. — 242 p. — ISBN 0 7190 6023 0 A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide range of topics...
Routledge, 2021. — 170 p. Originally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory. Using archaeological evidence, the author distinguishes 6 stages – from the earliest definable groups of...
The Overlook Press, 2010. — 512 p. A vivid, wide-ranging, and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of timeless stories by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic moments-from Bannockburn to the opening of the...
Tuckwell Press, 2002. — 368 p. Independent scholar Eric Graham presents a maritime history of Scotland during a formative period marked by press gangs, privateering, and warfare at sea. Illustrated throughout with b&w woodcuts and maps, the volume aims to demonstrate how state intervention and warfare in the pursuit of mercantilist goals largely determined the development of...
Luath Press, 2015. — 160 p. McCredie's lens and Gray's words search out everyday modern Scotland - a Scotland of flaking pub signs and sneaky fags outside the bingo, Italian cafes and proper fitba grounds. A nation of beautiful, haggard normality.
Luath Press, 2009. — 256 p. The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia examines Scotland's role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so profound. The book moves chronologically through events and places, firstly surveying the landscape in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 439 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 107). Migration is a fundamental feature of human experience. This extraordinary collection of essays focuses on a particularly intriguing sequence of migrations: those of Scots during the period 1600-1800. The book first considers the “near-abroad” (Ireland), the “middle-abroad” (Poland...
Brill, 2003. — 223 p. — (The Northern World 5). This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and economic growth, which in turn...
Routledge, 2015. — 295 p. The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.
Manchester University Press, 2005. — 264 p. This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, "across th' Atlantic roar". It outlines...
The History Press, 2016. — 192 p. This book contains hundreds of ‘strange but true’ stories about Scottish history. Arranged into a miniature history of Scotland, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will delight anyone with an interest in Scotland’s past.
Manchester University Press, 2009. — 264 p. Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 176 p. Annie Harrower-Gray opens up an alternative view of Scotland's turbulent history, revealing three centuries through the eyes of the nation's women. The whole of society appears, from ordinary laborers, prostitutes and factory hands to their more celebrated sisters and even witches, body snatchers and female Jacobites. All their tales are freshly...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 270 p. Christopher Harvie, one of Scotland's leading historians and political writers, takes a long view of Scotland: its land, people, and culture. Scotland: A History sweeps from the earliest settlements to the new Parliament of 1999 and beyond. It describes the unique multi-ethnic kingdom which emerged from the Dark Ages, the small, proud...
Brill, 2022. — 795 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 100). This book presents customized chapters by 28 authors on the evolution of the Scottish Reformation from the late 1520s to 1638. The book has broad thematic frameworks into which the specific chapters fit. There are 10 such major themes, namely: external and internal pressures for change; breakthrough...
Brill, 2022. — 774 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 100). — ISBN-13 978-9004329720. This book presents customized chapters by 28 authors on the evolution of the Scottish Reformation from the late 1520s to 1638. The book has broad thematic frameworks into which the specific chapters fit. There are 10 such major themes, namely: external and internal pressures...
Palgrave Pivot, 2022. — 205 p. Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice, polarisation and engagement in Scotland since then. The book contains eight chapters, and discusses...
Sandstone Press, 2022. — 480 p. Mary, Queen of Scots’ marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen’s court. Daughters of the North reframes this turbulent period in history by focusing on Jean, who became Countess of Sutherland: the most powerful...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 312 p. The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 200 p. Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many historians as the most charismatic and politically successful of Scotland's rulers, with his royal...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 200 p. Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many historians as the most charismatic and politically successful of Scotland's rulers, with his royal...
Crown Publishing Group, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2001. — 392 p. — ISBN 9780609606353, 0609606352. Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as...
Crown Publishing Group, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2001. — 392 p. — ISBN 9780609606353, 0609606352. Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as...
Crown Publishing Group, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2001. — 392 p. — ISBN 9780609606353, 0609606352. The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or even culture. It is also a state of mind, a way of viewing the world and our place in it. This Scottish mentality was a deliberate creation, athough it was...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2020. — 352 p. A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen...
Bellavista Publications, 1998. — 208 p. Orkney also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. The islands have been inhabited for at least 8,500 years, originally occupied by Mesolithic and Neolithic tribes and then by the Picts. Orkney was colonized and later annexed by the...
The History Press, 2014. — 228 p. The Little Book of Scotland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Discover the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Geoff Holder's latest book...
Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers, 1986. — 543 p. Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 193 p. — (Very Short Introductions). List of illustrations. Politics and government. Religion. Education. Society. Economy and environment. Scotland and the wider world. Culture. Conclusion: The lessons of history. References and further reading. Chronology. Monarchs of Scotland, 843–1714.
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. Macbeth is arguably the world's most famous monarch. Both the historical king and the literary character have fascinated writers and audiences for centuries, beginning with the poets who recited their verses at the medieval monarch's court. Macbeth's legend began almost immediately after his death as medieval and Renaissance writers...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. Macbeth is arguably the world's most famous monarch. Both the historical king and the literary character have fascinated writers and audiences for centuries, beginning with the poets who recited their verses at the medieval monarch's court. Macbeth's legend began almost immediately after his death as medieval and Renaissance writers...
Foreword by Anna Groundwater — Racehorse, 2019. — 384 p. Whether you’ve seen the recent movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie or the classic 1970’s film starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, this vibrant work of history will give you new insight into the life of Mary, Queen of Scots and her rivalry with Elizabeth I of England. Mary Queen of Scots, also known as...
Mainstream Publishing, 2010. — 416 p. Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. Never before has the history of the region been recounted so comprehensively and in so much fascinating, often...
Birlinn Ltd., 2015. — 416 p. They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that...
Birlinn, 2021. — 320 p. On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he’s evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell’s killer evades capture, but Britain’s rulers insist this challenge to their authority must...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 256 p. The story of the Jacobite Rebellions really began in 1534, when King Henry VIII changed the official religion of England from Catholic to Protestant. The narrative then continued through turbulent times of civil war and religious and political strife, leading to tensions and discontent boiling over when the Catholic King James II came to...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 256 p. The story of the Jacobite Rebellions really began in 1534, when King Henry VIII changed the official religion of England from Catholic to Protestant. The narrative then continued through turbulent times of civil war and religious and political strife, leading to tensions and discontent boiling over when the Catholic King James II came to...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 230 p. Traces the development of the ideology of modern Scottish nationalism from the 1960s to the independence referendum in 2014. Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie not in the...
Boydell Press, 2003. — 270 p. In the twilight years of Scottish independence, the Restoration period witnessed both the triumph of Stuart absolutism and the radical Covenanting resistance of the "Killing Times" immortalised in presbyterian memory. This is the first account of this fascinating and dramatic period in Scottish history. It begins with the widespread popular royalism...
Edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 576 p. - A classic text combining the work of Boswell and Johnson. - Provides both a reading and critical engagement with the texts. - Presents a lightly edited version of Boswell and Johnson's works; this publication preserves the original orthography, corrects typographical errors, and adapts some of...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 237 p. In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) Young Prince Stuart sailed to Scotland - determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government’s forces in Scotland and, against the odds, stormed to a shocking victory over them at the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 338 p. A Noble and Unknowable Lineage. An Exile in Hungary An Anglo-Saxon Princess A Wife of the King A Queen of the Scots A Pious Woman The Cornerstone of Margaret’s Cult A Dynastic Saint A Canonized Saint
Brill Academic Pub, 2014. — 404 p. — (Northern World 66). Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy challenges this perception through detailed analysis of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish...
Routledge, 2019. — 236 p. James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603. The collection assesses James’ relationship with his nobility, detailing how he interacted with...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 256 p. George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in the reign of James VI. The founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen and the towns of Peterhead and Stonehaven, reputed to be the richest earl in Scotland, Marischal and his kindred were witness to a Scotland reeling from the consequences of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 224 p. Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular imagination, but who were the Jacobites, really? Explore this pivotal moment in Scottish history, visiting some of the key locations from Jamie and Claire’s travels. Discover what clan life was really like, read about medicine in the 1700s and find out whether the...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 224 p. Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular imagination, but who were the Jacobites, really? Explore this pivotal moment in Scottish history, visiting some of the key locations from Jamie and Claire’s travels. Discover what clan life was really like, read about medicine in the 1700s and find out whether the...
John Wiley & Sons, 2014. — 336 p. Want to discover how a small country on the edge of Northern Europe packs an almighty historical punch? Scottish History For Dummies is your guide to the story of Scotland and its place within the historical narratives of Britain, Europe and the rest of the world. You'll find out how Scotland rose from the ashes to forge its own destiny,...
Simon and Schuster, 2014. — 298 p. Picturesque, accurate and delightfully written, this book is within the means and ought to be possessed by every Scotsman and by every one who has a bit of Scottish blood in his veins, or a particle of interest in the land of Bruce and Burns. With a sly, dry wit that will enthrall today's readers, author Andrew Lang delves into the decadence...
Brill, 2020. — x, 210 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). Cultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600–1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. — 416 p. Discover the fascinating lives of the iconic figures that have shaped Scotland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of Scotland’s cultural, social and political landscape, with more than 100 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. The Scots have contributed richly to the world, most...
Ashgate Publishing, 2007. — 253 p. Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of...
Routledge, 1998. — 234 p. This book is the first detailed discussion of the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a refreshing new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an examination of relations between Kirk and State based firmly on contemporary sources. Analysing the formation...
London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1789. — 639 p. In the previous volumes of this work an attempt was made to define the successive stages through which the Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland has passed, and to describe the characteristic features of each period. The various periods were illustrated with numerous examples, which, it was believed, would be considered...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 273 p. MacIntosh examines the political events of Scotland under Charles II, providing the first detailed and accessible account of the Restoration Scottish parliament and revealing its hitherto unexplored constitutional development.
Mainstream Publishing, 2012. — 320 p. In My End Is My Beginning is the story of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), the tragic heroine par excellence. Queen of an unfamiliar and troubled nation when she was a week old, it was her misfortune to be a pawn in the game of international politics throughout her life. Even in the brief period from 1561 to 1567 when she was ruler of...
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 304 p. The description of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. This book is the first...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 340 p. The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognized. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa....
Penguin Books, 2009. — 414 p. For a generation, this book - intelligent, fair - minded and accurate - has been acclaimed as the definitive one - volume history of a great nation. It shows how Duncan (1034 - 1040) emerged from 'the union of the four peoples' as the first king of a united Scotland and provides detailed, reign - by - reign accounts from then on. Close...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 176 p. Bringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean's classic work includes additional chapters by distinguished journalist Magnus Linklater. Linklater examines how the new Scottish parliament has fared and discusses significant events, such as devolution and the transfer of taxation rights from Westminster, the...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2004. — 180 p. Kathleen MacPhee provides an in-depth historical insight into the 12th century King of Argyll who laid the ground for the expulsion of the Norse from Scotland's west coast and Hebrides. This was a thoroughly enjoyable if unusual sort of biography: relatively little about the man himself, but a wonderful bounty of information regarding his...
Brill, 2023. — xxviii, 586 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 40). This book explores the rise of a Scottish common law from the twelfth century on despite the absence until around 1500 of a secular legal profession. Key stimuli were the activity of church courts and canon lawyers in Scotland, coupled with the example provided by neighbouring England’s common law. The laity’s...
Grove Press, 2003. — 734 p. The definitive history of Scotland, told as a tale from its beginnings up to now. Hailed as a "vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland's past over a dozen millennia", Magnusson draws on a great deal of modern scholarship to redefine a nation's history. He charts the long struggle toward nationhood, explores the roots of the original Scots, and...
Birlinn, 2014. — 192 p. James VII and II is one of the least studied monarchs of Scotland, and has previously mostly been studied from an English perspective or as the muddled victim of the revolution of 1688/9 which delivered for Britain much-vaunted political emancipation. This book provides the first complete portrait of James as a Stewart prince of Scotland, as duke of...
Birlinn, 2019. — 240 p. The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right and the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady Macbeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare’s famous play? Was St Margaret a demure and obedient wife?...
Birlinn, 2022. — 224 p. Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry – who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new life in the New World – North America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The Scots are a remarkable...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 300 p. The association of shoemakers (cordiners in Scotland) with St Crispin, their patron saint, remained so strong that, at least until the early twentieth century, a shoemaker was popularly called a ""Crispin"" and collectively ""sons of Crispin"". Medieval Scottish cordiners maintained altars to St Crispin and his brother St Crispianus...
Birlinn, 2021. — 270 p. Since Ferguson’s work appeared, however, not only has research and publication in the fields of Scottish and English history continued apace, but the idea of writing truly British history has also been placed firmly on the academic agenda. The purpose of the present volume, therefore, is to present in readily accessible form the results of at least some...
Tuckwell Press, 1998. — 348 p. This collection of essays brings together some of the fruits of over a decade of research into the political thought and culture of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. As a collection, it ranges from detailed studies of the writings of figures of international standing such as John Mair, John Knox, George Buchanan and King James VI and I, to...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2002. — 224 pages. — ISBN10: 0850529492 ISBN13: 978-0850529494 Today the rivalry between St Andrew and St George may be fierce but at least it is limited to the sporting field. This was by no means the case before the Act of Settlement in the eighteenth century. Rupert Matthews has researched more than twenty major battles between these two countries,...
Pen & Sword, 2002. — 224 p. Today the rivalry between St Andrew and St George may be fierce but at least it is limited to the sporting field. This was by no means the case before the Act of Settlement in the eighteenth century. Rupert Matthews has researched more than twenty major battles between these two countries, over a period of 1,000 years. Each battle forms a chapter,...
Brill, 2016. — 241 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). This series of modern essays offers new perspectives on the longer-term context and development of the Scottish Reformation, emphasising changes and continuities in religious life in early modern Scotland, and synthesising the fruits of the latest research in the field.
Routledge, 2001. — 225 p. — ISBN 0-203-41492-6 Scotland in the twenty-rst century: how are we to understand it sociologically? Should we even try? It might seem that we would be better focusing on the broad social, economic and cultural processes which shape the modern world as a whole, and that there is little to be said that is different about a small, north-west European...
Birlinn Press, 2014. — 218 p. In autumn 2014 those living in Scotland will face the most important political decision of a lifetime. Whether Scotland becomes an independent state once again, as it was before 1707, or remains within the United Kingdom will have profound consequences for everyone in Britain. There are many issues involved in this important choice, but a key part...
Birlinn, 2020. — 296 p. Behind the tales of cateran raiding in the Scottish Highlands was an age-old practice, beloved of the clan warriors. Trained in the ways of the School of the Moon they liked little better than raiding other clans to lift their cattle and disappear into the wild mountains under the cover of darkness. If pursued and battle became necessary, that was no...
Birlinn, 2005. — 221 p. In the Highlands of Scotland till modern times lived a warrior-society whose way of life had remained unchanged for centuries. Focused on the central role of the warrior, the Scottish clan system, built round the ties of blood, continued to exist alongside the modern rapidly industrializing society of eighteenth-century Britain. The warriors of the clan,...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 235 p. Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 235 p. Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a...
The History Press, 2014. — 98 p. — (Bloody History). Aberdeen has been inhabited for 10,000 years, ever since the first hunter-gathers settled on the banks of the River Dee. Since then, its history has been stained with blood: Romans and Vikings have invaded and kings have fought, leaving Aberdeenshire's fields and moors littered with corpses. The plague has ravaged the city,...
Routledge, 2016. — 295 p. Politics in Scotland is an authoritative introduction to the contemporary political landscape in Scotland and an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Scottish Politics. Written by leading experts in the field, it is coherently organised to provide a clear and comprehensive overview of a range of themes in contemporary Scottish...
Birlinn, 2000. — 448 p. The 'Rough Wooings', fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century Scotland. But the Wooings were wars of independence as well. As the kings of England and France vied to control the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 241 p. An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792 - 1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire. The first author to examine the full range of Alison's writings and activities, Michael Michie reveals a significant link between the...
Birlinn Ltd., 2007. — 288 p. In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the King of Sweden's army. Sinclair has legendary status in Norway but has been totally forgotten in his home country, just as the memory of...
Routledge, 2002. — 380 p. Covering a staggering period from the Pictish peoples and their symbol stones to modern devolution, Mitchison's absorbing narrative remains the classic introduction to Scottish history.This beautifully written text covers the key social and political aspects of the growth of this nation, and comprises cultural systems of thought such as early...
Birlinn Ltd., 2014. — 160 p. Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights on the morning of Sunday 23 June 1314, many would have that the result a foregone conclusion. But after two days' fighting, the English...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 400 p. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavor. Alistair Moffat’s gripping narrative ranges from the great thaw at the end of the Ice Age, which was instrumental in shaping Scotland’s magnificent landscape; through the megalith builders, the Celts, and the Picts; to the ascension of...
Birlinn, 2015. — 526 p. From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation's history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that are perhaps less well documented. From prehistoric...
Birlinn, 2007. — 645 p. This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories, but up close and personal, toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball across the tweed, the Cheviots, the Esk, and the tidal...
Birlinn, 2010. — 286 p. Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts, and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see, and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious. The Faded Map looks beyond these to...
Birlinn, 2010. — 286 p. Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts, and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see, and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious. The Faded Map looks beyond these to...
Canongate Books, 2018. — 336 p. In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes, flyways and sea-roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Alistair's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the...
Birlinn, 2012. — 272 p. History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of...
Birlinn, 2023. — 304 p. Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In thirteen journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the clans – surely the most feared fighting men in western Europe – he also speaks of their lives, their language and culture before...
Routledge, 2015. — 270 p. This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural development, and draws out the implications for current...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 272 p. A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism. It is to explain this assimilation, and to deconstruct the...
University of London Press, 2022. — 340 p. The wealth generated both directly and indirectly by Caribbean slavery had a major impact on Glasgow and Scotland. Glasgow's Sugar Aristocracy is the first book to directly assess the size, nature and effects of this. West India merchants and plantation owners based in Glasgow made nationally significant fortunes, some of which boosted...
Routledge, 2020. — 194 p. Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763 , explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in Scotland as the competing ideologies of Scottish...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 2010. — 224 p. While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander Murdoch's...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 2009. — 216 p. While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander Murdoch's...
Phoenix, 2010
Neil Oliver shares with his readers his passionate view of Scotland's history from the formation of the rocks to the present SNP government of Scotland. Linking together in a compact volume a trail of discovery from start to finish, this is an ideal companion to the TV series of the same name. This volume fills in many gaps in the TV series necessarily created by...
Phoenix, 2010
Neil Oliver shares with his readers his passionate view of Scotland's history from the formation of the rocks to the present SNP government of Scotland. Linking together in a compact volume a trail of discovery from start to finish, this is an ideal companion to the TV series of the same name. This volume fills in many gaps in the TV series necessarily created by...
Phoenix, 2010
Neil Oliver shares with his readers his passionate view of Scotland's history from the formation of the rocks to the present SNP government of Scotland. Linking together in a compact volume a trail of discovery from start to finish, this is an ideal companion to the TV series of the same name. This volume fills in many gaps in the TV series necessarily created by...
Four Courts Press, 2000. — 320 p. Handbook of Scottish Gaelic Culture provides, for the first time, an overview of Scotland's indigenous Celtic society, including many primary sources which have never previously been edited or translated. This presentation of materials allows the reader to appreciate Gaelic culture from its own point of view in its proper cultural context....
Origin, 2019. — 486 p. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract...
Birlinn, 2009. — 448 p. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract...
Birlinn, 2009. — 448 p. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 336 p. Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions – the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 - and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described in graphic detail. Yet no previous book has given a comprehensive military account of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 336 p. Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions – the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 - and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described in graphic detail. Yet no previous book has given a comprehensive military account of...
John Wiley Australia, 2012. — 450 p. As a person who knew very little of Scottish history before reading this book, I found it to be very enlightening. It starts with Margaret, later St. Margaret, who married an early king, I believe he was Robert I. Her Godly influence passed down through several generations of monarchs, and finally came to the James, I-VI. The lives of the...
Birlinn, 2021. — 192 p. In the summer of 1411, the ageing Donald of Isla, Lord of the Isles, invaded mainland Scotland with a huge, battle-hardened army, only to be fought to a bloody standstill on the plateau of Harlaw, fifteen miles from Aberdeen, a town he had threatened to sack. One of the greatest battles in Scottish history, described by hardened mediaeval chroniclers as...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 348 p. — (The Northern World 68). In The Lordship of the Isles , twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonalds of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the...
The History Press, 2011. — 240 p. Authoritative and accessible illustrated history of the Kings and Queens of Scotland from the earliest Scots and Pictish Kings c.400 through to the Union of the Crowns in 1707. The collection of biographical essays on Scottish monarchs edited by Richard Oram offers the reader a unique opportunity to learn Scottish history through the lives of...
The History Press, 2011. — 240 p. Authoritative and accessible illustrated history of the Kings and Queens of Scotland from the earliest Scots and Pictish Kings c.400 through to the Union of the Crowns in 1707. The collection of biographical essays on Scottish monarchs edited by Richard Oram offers the reader a unique opportunity to learn Scottish history through the lives of...
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1997. — xii+243 p. — ISBN: 1-874744-69-6. This is the most up-to-date book available on the archaeology of prehistoric Scotland, from the seventh millennium BC, through the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age, to the emergence of the early historic kingdoms of the Celtic Iron Age. Written for the general reader, Scottish Prehistory includes a gazetteer of...
John Blake Publishing, 2015. — 255 p. Which Scottish anti-slavery campaigner lost a son in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War? Was the enemy of Scotland's first 'freedom fighter' not England, but ancient Rome? What was the laboratory accident that led to one of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine? How did the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 216 p. An in-depth account of the wars Scotland's northern and western highlands in the early Middle Ages, focusing on the rivalries between the Norse warlords and the early Scottish kings. The wars fought in Scotland’s northern and western highlands between the ninth and fourteenth centuries were a key stage in the military history of the...
Birlinn, 2020. — 228 p. It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a...
Ph. D. touches upon the most important facts and events in history of Scotland. – 89 p. Celtic Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland. An Independent Scotland. Turmoil After The Bruce. The Two Crowns. The Stuart Cause. The Union of 1707. Charles Edward and the 45. After Culloden. Scotland Resurgent. Transformation. Scots Wha Hae. The High Road to Independence. Scotland between the...
Routledge, 2003. — 165 p. The evidence for the earliest colonization of Scotland by man has been exhaustively examined by Lacaille, whose conclusions accordingly need only a brief discussion here. In common with other workers, he distinguishes four main groups of pre-neolithic communities, each identified by its own characteristic stone and flint industry, and each referable to...
Routledge, 2014. — 209 p. A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland. Murray Pittock traces the Stuart myth from the days of Charles I to the modern...
Reaktion Books, 2008. — 210 p. Independence has been a contested issue in Scotland since the region was first invaded by England in 1707, and the realm continues to linger in a no-man’s land between regional status and full sovereignty. The issue of independence has risen to the forefront of Scottish discussion in the past fifty years and Murray Pittock offers here an...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 265 p. — (Ideas in Context). — ISBN 9781107091764, 1107091764. Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered an alternative and...
Barnesley: Pen and Sward Military, 2009. — 288 p. Well over two and a half centuries after the event, the Battle of Culloden, fought on 16 April 1746, still means many things to many people. To Scottish expatriates, no matter how many times removed, it is an emotional touchstone to their Scottish identity and commonly regarded as the opening act of the epic tragedy of the Highland...
Macmillan, 2013. — 523 p. The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. But very little has been said about the background to their intense rivalry. Here, Linda Porter examines the ancient and intractable power struggle between England and Scotland, a...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1975. - 535 pgs. Highland soldiers were Britain's first colonial levies. first raised to police their own hills, then expended in imperial wars. The Gaelic people of the 18th century, three percent only of the population none the less supplied the Crown with sixty-five regiments. Contrary to romantic belief, the Highlander was rarely a willing soldier,...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1975. - 535 pgs. Highland soldiers were Britain's first colonial levies. first raised to police their own hills, then expended in imperial wars. The Gaelic people of the 18th century, three percent only of the population none the less supplied the Crown with sixty-five regiments. Contrary to romantic belief, the Highlander was rarely a willing soldier,...
London: Pimlico, 2002. — 367 p. The story of the famous battle - from the acclaimed expert on Scottish history.The book begins in the rain at five o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor. This is the story of the battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the...
Penguin Books, 1968. — 304 p. "You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy." This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 511 p. Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden, but know little if anything about those events. Rugby and soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign '1314' held up by Scottish fans and not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 272 р. This illuminating book looks beyond the capital and political elites to examine religious and political change in communities across Scotland during a transformative period of the nation’s history. Providing a clear narrative of the period, the book draws on a wide range of sources to examine the relationship between central power and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 272 p. Scotland in Revolution, 1685–1690 is a study of the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought his fall. Whereas previous accounts concentrate on high politics, this book draws on neglected sources to examine the relationship between central power and the Scottish localities. James was a...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 310 p. The Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in Scotland from the Restoration to the death of Queen Anne and outlines a new model for thinking about collective disagreement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies. Rejecting teleological concepts of the 'public sphere', the book instead analyses religious debates in...
Canongate Books, 2014. — 256 p. 1314. On a marsh-fringed plain south of Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led the Scottish army in a singularly devastating victory over the English. Bannockburn was Scotland's greatest battlefield triumph, achieved against the odds by a combination of brilliant tactical leadership and the fatal overconfidence of the English King, Edward II....
Birlinn Ltd., 2003. — 208 p. Boosted by the success of naval campaigns in the Western Isles and support for the Danes, James IV, in a misguided attempt to support France when that country was invaded by Henry VIII's troops, ordered the Scottish army across the Border. At Flodden he faced English troops under the Earl of Surrey, and although having a big advantage in terms of...
Birlinn Ltd., 2003. — 208 p. Boosted by the success of naval campaigns in the Western Isles and support for the Danes, James IV, in a misguided attempt to support France when that country was invaded by Henry VIII's troops, ordered the Scottish army across the Border. At Flodden he faced English troops under the Earl of Surrey, and although having a big advantage in terms of...
Birlinn Ltd., 2023. — 256 p. For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This book explores the complex, often tumultuous, and frequently brutal interaction between the world’s first superpower and the peoples who would ultimately form the country we now call...
Birlinn Ltd., 2023. — 256 p. For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This book explores the complex, often tumultuous, and frequently brutal interaction between the world’s first superpower and the peoples who would ultimately form the country we now call...
Frontline Books, 2018. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-1-52670-994-3. The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie (1689) was unquestionably the most dramatic. It was very much a Scottish...
London: Windrow & Greene, 1994. — 128 p. The battle fought at Culloden beteen the armies of the Duke of Cumberland and Prince Charles Edward Stewart has passed into history not only as the bloody ruin of the Jacobite cause, but also as a symbol of the final confrontation of two cultures. It has inevitably become entangled in legend and distortion. This book - the result of...
Shire Publications, 2013. — 68 p. Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion and Scottish National Dress is recognised around the world. This book reveals the origin and development of tartans and Scottish national costume. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland but is now generally accepted as its national costume. What...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 256 p. Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more public support and arguably far more chance of success than Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt 30 years later. Unlike the ’45, the uprising which culminated in the brutal battle of Sheriffmuir was very much a Scottish affair, fought without either...
Palgrave Macmillan UK,1978 — 263 p. — (History in Depth ) — ISBN 9781349041428, 9781349041404, 1349041424. The Enlightenment of Scotland, unlike that in England, saw a distinctive pattern of ideas emerge, and a unique collection of talented writers, including David Hume and Adam Smith. Here the author concentrates on the earlier and most brilliant phases of the Scottish...
Palgrave Macmillan UK,1978 — 263 p. — (History in Depth ) — ISBN 9781349041428, 9781349041404, 1349041424. The Enlightenment of Scotland, unlike that in England, saw a distinctive pattern of ideas emerge, and a unique collection of talented writers, including David Hume and Adam Smith. Here the author concentrates on the earlier and most brilliant phases of the Scottish...
Brill, 2019. — xiv, 208 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). The Scottish Reformation is often presumed to have had little economic impact. Traditionally, scholars maintained that Scotland’s late medieval church gradually secularised its estates, and that the religious changes of 1560 barely disrupted an ongoing trend. In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes challenges...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 608 p. The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history - in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James II) crown - remains the stuff of legend: the hunted fugitive,...
Reprint ed. — John Donald Pub., 2022. — 378 p. The constitutional and religious settlement in Scotland after the revolution of 1688 largely determined the nature of Scottish politics and of Anglo-Scottish relations up to the union of 1707. King William and the Scottish Politicians examines the making of this revolution settlement and demonstrates how, in conjunction with...
B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1997. — 128 p. — (Historic Scotland). Set at the western tip of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, the small island of Iona is the burial place of kings and the kernel from which Christianity took root among the pagan Picts, as well as being a symbol of Scottish independence. The island was also St Columba's choice for his spiritual base in 563. This book tells the...
Tuckwell Press, 2004. — 305 p. Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, this book shows that she was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politician whose own dynastic interests and those of her daughter took precedence over her personal and religious convictions....
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 258 p. "Clan, King and Covenant" explores the turbulent history of the Highlands during the seventeenth century. The signing of the National Covenant in 1638 first challenged the powers of Charles I in Scotland, but it was only when Alisdair MacDonald joined Montrose in raising the Royalist clans that the country erupted into civil war. Central...
Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2002. - 225 p. The Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 have long been regarded as romantic episodes in the history of Scotland, wreathed admittedly in myth and legend, but with negligible political significance. Until quite recently, they attracted little attention from serious historians. Instead, the lives of the Old Pretender, James Edward...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 239 p. Lucid and entertaining, this book follows the history of Celtic Scotland from the ancient kingdoms of the Picts and Scots to the downfall of Clan Donald at the end of the fifteenth century. The roles played by Somerled and his descendants, the Canmore kings, Edward I as the 'Hammer of the Scots', and Robert the Bruce, are recounted,...
John Donald Publishers, 1985. — 279 p. The question of military organization was a major interest of the leading thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith, and they were implicitly critical of common assumptions about the value of Scotland's martial heritage and the character of post-Union Scottish politics. This study pursues...
Birlinn, 2016. — 228 p. This is the second volume in Kenneth Roy's magisterial series on the life of Scotland since the Second World War. The first, The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Post-War Scotland 1945–1975, was met with immediate acclaim. Ian Hamilton declared it 'The most remarkable book on Scotland I have ever read'. This new volume brings the story much closer to the...
Birlinn, 2013. — 416 p. Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war matériel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy, and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also...
Birlinn, 2014. — 384 p. On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely...
Manchester University Press, 2006. — 232 p. This is the first synthetic narrative of the origins of the Scottish Reformation of 1560; the narrative covers the period 1525-1560. It brings together religious history with the political history of Mary, Queen of Scots' reign, paying particular attention to the role of warfare and violence. It is aimed principally at students and...
Routledge, 2006. — 634 p. Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of...
Luath Press, 2014. — 187 p. This book considers various aspects of the Referendum, with a particular focus on Scottish cultural institutions, such as the National Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery. Scott also pays close attention to Scotland's past, frequently referencing literary figures and devoting a chapter to Scottish Literature to persuasively convince the reader...
Edinbourgh: David Douglas, 1877. — 510 p. The volume now published contains the second of the three books into which the history of Scotland during the Celtic Period has been divided, and, like the first volume, forms a substantive work in itself. It deals entirely with the old Celtic Church, and its influence on the culture of the people. The early ecclesiastical history of...
Forgotten Books, 2016. — 549 p. A new edition of this the third and last volume of early Celtic Scotland having now been called for, the author is glad to have this opportunity of correcting any mistakes of the press which have occurred in it. As this volume deals with the early land tenures and social condition of the Celtic inhabitants of Scotland, in which a number of...
Historic Environment Scotland, 2017. — 325 p. The authors travel across the country to tell the story of the nation, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern cities. Whether visiting Shetland’s Mousa Broch at midsummer, following in the footsteps of pilgrims to Iona Abbey, joining the tourist bustle at Edinburgh Castle, scaling the Forth Bridge or...
Edinburgh University Press, 2005. — 465 p. The first modern history of Scottish woodlands, this highly illustrated volume explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Drawing on work in natural science, geography and history, as well as on the authors' own research, it presents an...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 922 p. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military...
Pantianos Classics, 2019. — 90 p. This illustrated book contains the history of Stirling Castle in Scotland, a place famous for its beautiful design, for accommodating various royals and for its decisive role in Medieval wars. The author tackles the various facets of Stirling Castle's history, beginning with how the site of the building was selected for its geography. The...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 352 p. In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley's body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning. The Queen's husband had been murdered and the...
Routledge, 2013. — 354 p. The 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-1690 played a fundamental role in re-shaping the political, religious and cultural map of the British Isles. Yet, as this book demonstrates, many key elements of the history of the period between the landing of William of Orange and the establishment of the Union between Scotland and England, remain shadowy. In...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 269 p. This book is a new edition of David Stevenson's classic account of the origins of Freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives, rituals and modes of identification with ideals of fraternity, equality, toleration and reason. Beginning in Britain, Freemasonry swept across Europe in the mid-eighteenth century in...
John Donald, 2022. — 502 р. In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of power to London which had followed the 1603 Union of the Crowns. The Covenanters fought for a Scottish parliament free from royal control as well as for a Presbyterian...
I.B. Tauris, 2009. — 315 p. Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1979 to 1990 had a profound impact on Scotland. David Stewart analyzes the impact of this period of Conservative government on Scotland, while examining the extent to which Conservative policy under Thatcher represented a break from the ‘post-war consensus’ in British politics. Focusing on the origins and impact...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 408 p. The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. 'Rethinking the Scottish Revolution' argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism, and reconsiders its...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 232 p. This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive. The Jacobite Scots are...
2nd Edition. — Manchester University Press, 2019. — 344 p. The product of forty years of research by one of the foremost historians of Jacobitism, this book is a comprehensive revision of Professor Szechi's popular 1994 survey of the Jacobite movement in the British Isles and Europe. Like the first edition, it is undergraduate-friendly, providing an enhanced chronology, a...
Batsford, 1997. — 156 p. The authoritative and engaging story of Scotland's Castles from the 12th to the 16th centuries, from mighty castles royal to tall storeys and poky dwellings. Despite their grand associations, Scottish castles were central to the lives of many Scots, of all social stations; castles were their work place, their place of worship, their army barracks, their...
B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1995. — 128 p. — (Historic Scotland). This title, one of the Historic Scotland series, traces by means of surviving buildings and archaeological remains, the intense military activity in Scotland during the Jacobite era. It brings to life the men who formed part of the first standing army, and covers sites existing today together with the problems of...
Historic Scotland, 2008. — 68 p. — (Explore Scottish Monuments). Clans are central to the story of Scotland. These social and political groupings, based on kinship and local loyalties, played a key role in shaping the nation. Over many centuries, their culture, struggles and achievements shaped its history, and their strongholds defined its landscape. But who were the clans?...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 р. This is the 1,000-year saga of the remarkable Scottish family, who began as stewards, then became Stewarts, the Royal Stewarts, and finally Stuarts. They were remarkable not only for the continuity of the male line, which went for 26 generations without a break, but also for the 340 years that they held on to sovereign power. Yet, despite the...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 200 p. Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on one side by a circular rock-cut basin and on the other...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 304 p. A characteristically robust and controversial account of Scotch myth and Scottish history by one of Britain’s greatest historians. This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2001. — 340 p. — (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph series 18). Glassmaking was one of the earliest manufacturing industries to be set up in Scotland, but one about which little information has been published. This monograph aims to rectify that situation by documenting the early days of Scottish glass production from the granting...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 363 p. List of figures page List of tables Acknowledgements Scotland before 1707 Scotland from 1707 to 1821 General review Agricultural improvement The planned village movement The whisky industry Scotland from 1821 to 1914 General review Glasgow and the Clyde The iron and steel industry Crofting in north Scotland Scotland since 1914 General...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. On the evening of 9 March 1566, a raiding party forced their way into the palace of Holyrood House and stabbed Italian secretary, David Rizzio to death while he was at supper with Mary, Queen of Scots. The attack was savage and brutal - Rizzio was stabbed over fifty times - and Mary's husband, Darnley, was among the conspirators. David Rizzio...
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1866 Note: All of the chapters are .pdf files for which you will need the free Adobe reader. By default we have reduced the file sizes to make them more easy to download especially for dial-up visitors. You have a choice of downloading a complete volume or parts of it. I have commenced the History of Scotland at the accession of Alexander the Third,...
Routledge, 2021. — 181 p. Originally published in 1977, at a time when Scottish affairs were in a state of flux as the debate over political devolution and self-government was pursued, this book deals with key features of Scottish development. It explores the main issues which were then being considered in the planning of Scotland’s future. The contributors discuss the issues...
Blue Banner Production, 1998. — 232 p. This is a good historical and theological overview of the Covenanters and their distinctives. It’s a worthwhile read for any generation as it forces you to think through the proper relationship the church should seek with the state, whether you agree with the Covenanter view or not.
Blue Banner Production, 1998. — 232 p. This is a good historical and theological overview of the Covenanters and their distinctives. It’s a worthwhile read for any generation as it forces you to think through the proper relationship the church should seek with the state, whether you agree with the Covenanter view or not.
Rutgers University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume—the first full-length study of the...
Pen and Sword, 1995. — 160 p. This book covers the major battles in Scotland starting from Wallace and de Moray's victory at Sterling Bridge and Wallace's later defeat at Falkirk, straight through to Culloden. Gives very detailed maps and locations references for those trying to visit these locations, a brief introduction to Scottish History and the in individual battles in a...
Chronos Books, 2017. — 168 p. Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII's older sister and became the Queen of Scotland after her marriage to James IV in 1503. Her life was troubled and fraught with tension. She was continually caught between her country of birth and the country she ruled. After James IV's death, she made the disastrous decision to marry the Earl of Angus, threatening her...
The History Press, 2013. — 251 p. From the early settlers after the last Ice Age, and the myth and ritual that surrounds that prehistoric period, Fiona Watson charts the evolution of the Scottish people - as Scots, Picts and Angles - and their interaction with the world abroad, from invasions by the Romans and Vikings and teh medieval wars of independence with England right...
Random House, 2004. — 640 p. Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing sovereign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his...
Ballantine Books, 2016. — 605 p. — ISBN: 0345521390. From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 344 p. Scottish Society, 1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history.. Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked.. Contests received wisdom on issues such as the role of the Kirk and...
Routledge, 2021. — 265 p. Originally published in 1990 this book focusses on the main manoeuvres that took place in Scotland and England between 1688 and the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It provides a detailed chronological narrative of places, people and battles. Many of the sites associated with the Jacobites have not changed greatly in the last two centuries, and the book is...
Routledge, 2014. — 416 p. This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 243 p. For the British government's supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French principles in any shape or form they might take. Whether this meant defeating the influence of French revolutionary ideas in Scotland, or defeating the military menace of the French republic, they were determined to...
2nd Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 288 p. This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformation Scotland from 1470 to 1625. Now re-issued in the popular New History of Scotland series, with a contextual foreword by Keith Brown as tribute to the career of Jenny Wormald, who did so much to transform our understanding of early modern Scotland....
Birlinn, 2017. — 257 p. This is a valuable book that focuses on Mary Stuart as a ruler rather than Mary Stuart as a heroine in a historical romance. It is not a mystery about who killed Lord Darnley. It is a critical analysis of what occurred when someone who was historically ordained to rule, but who possessed none of the qualities to make that rule successful in the dynamic...
Oxford University Press, 2005 — 323 p. Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got in on the act, because of their heroism...
The History Press, 2005. — 288 p. Using letters, diaries and first-hand accounts together with original photographs, here is the real story of Scotland's soldiers in the First World War. Scotland's response to the Great War has, up until now, largely been marginalized or ignored. With a proportionally higher number of volunteers than any other home nation, Scotland's youth...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 305 p. The argument presented in this book arose from an extension to the question whether the suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746, as represented by a long-standing historiographical consensus, spelled the end of Jacobite hopes, and British fears, of another restoration attempt. The principal conclusion of this book is that the Jacobite...
Ростов н/Д: Изд-во Рост. ун-та, 2006. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-9275-0220-2. Монография является первым в отечественной историографии исследованием клановой системы Горной Шотландии, которая рассматривается в широком контексте социокультурного, экономического и геополитического развития эпохи европейской модернизации. Предметом исследования в монографии стали представления о родстве в...
Монография. — Ростов-на-Дону: Ростовский государственный университет (РГУ), 2006. — 320 с. — ISBN 5927502202. Монография является первым в отечественной историографии исследованием клановой системы Горной Шотландии, которая рассматривается в широком контексте социокультурного, экономического и геополитического развития эпохи европейской модернизации. Предметом исследования в...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2016. — 720 с.: ил. – (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-906823-07-6. Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной науке комплексное исследование шотландской истории Нового времени, включая политические, социальные, экономические процессы, а также культуру и повседневные практики. Особое внимание уделяется наиболее значимым проблемам, лежащим в основе...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2016. — 720 с. — (Pax Britannica). Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной науке комплексное исследование шотландской истории Нового времени, включая политические, социальные, экономические процессы, а также культуру и повседневные практики. Особое внимание уделяется наиболее значимым проблемам, лежащим в основе национальной идентичности Шотландии....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2023. — 720 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-906823-07-6. Монография представляет собой первое в отечественной науке комплексное исследование шотландской истории Нового времени, включая политические, социальные, экономические процессы, а также культуру и повседневные практики. Особое внимание уделяется наиболее значимым проблемам, лежащим в основе национальной...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2011. — 168 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN 978-5-91419-385-7. Исследование рассматривает комплекс англо-шотландских отношений в первой половине XV в., завязанных как на высокой политике Лондона и Эдинбурга, так и на региональных трендах, формируемых лордами англо-шотландского пограничья и знатью шотландского Лоуленда и Хайленда. Особое место в работе уделено...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2011. — 168 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-385-7. Исследование рассматривает комплекс англо-шотландских отношений в первой половине XV в., завязанных как на высокой политике Лондона и Эдинбурга, так и на региональных трендах, формируемых лордами англо-шотландского пограничья и знатью шотландского Лоуленда и Хайленда. Особое место в работе уделено...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2011. — 168 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-385-7. Исследование рассматривает комплекс англо-шотландских отношений в первой половине XV в., завязанных как на высокой политике Лондона и Эдинбурга, так и на региональных трендах, формируемых лордами англо-шотландского пограничья и знатью шотландского Лоуленда и Хайленда. Особое место в работе уделено...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 336 с. — (Clio fundationis).
ISBN 5-8071-0120-0.
История Шотландии известна отечественному читателю в основном по романам Вальтера Скотта, посвященным бурной переломной эпохе Английской революции и падения Стюартов. В остальном Шотландия появляется на страницах книг и журналов только в роли непримиримой противницы Англии. И уж совсем мало внимания...
М.: Вече, 2008. – 336 с. (Terra Historica). ISBN: 978-5-9533-2767-1. Что мы знаем о Шотландии? Пожалуй немного. Кое-что из романов Вальтера Скотта да яркий кинематографический образ шотландского «Горца» – Дункана Мак-Лауда. Эта книга представит вам древнюю страну на севере Британии в исчерпывающей исторической конкретности: как хранительницу ныне почти забытых традиций ещё...
М.: Вече, 2008. — 336 с.
Что мы знаем о Шотландии? Пожалуй немного. Кое-что из романов Вальтера Скотта да яркий кинематографический образ шотландского «Горца» — Дункана Мак-Лауда. Эта книга представит вам древнюю страну на севере Британии в исчерпывающей исторической конкретности: как хранительницу ныне почти забытых традиций еще докельтской (!) культуры полулегендарной...
Перевод, научная ред., вступит. статья С. В. Иванов. — М.: Вече, 2008. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-2767-1. Что мы знаем о Шотландии? Пожалуй немного. Кое-что из романов Вальтера Скотта да яркий кинематографический образ шотландского «Горца» – Дункана Мак-Лауда. Эта книга представит вам древнюю страну на севере Британии в исчерпывающей исторической конкретности: как...
Перевод, научная ред., вступит. статья С. В. Иванов. — М.: Вече, 2008. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-2767-1. Что мы знаем о Шотландии? Пожалуй немного. Кое-что из романов Вальтера Скотта да яркий кинематографический образ шотландского «Горца» – Дункана Мак-Лауда. Эта книга представит вам древнюю страну на севере Британии в исчерпывающей исторической конкретности: как...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 336 с. История Шотландии известна отечественному читателю в основном по романам Вальтера Скотта, посвященным бурной переломной эпохе Английской революции и падения Стюартов. В остальном Шотландия появляется на страницах книг и журналов только в роли непримиримой противницы Англии. И уж совсем мало внимания уделяется тому периоду, когда оба государства мирно...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 336 с.
История Шотландии известна отечественному читателю в основном по романам Вальтера Скотта, посвященным бурной переломной эпохе Английской революции и падения Стюартов. В остальном Шотландия появляется на страницах книг и журналов только в роли непримиримой противницы Англии. И уж совсем мало внимания уделяется тому периоду, когда оба государства...
СПб.: Евразия, 2003. — 336 с. История Шотландии известна отечественному читателю в основном по романам Вальтера Скотта, посвященным бурной переломной эпохе Английской революции и падения Стюартов. В остальном Шотландия появляется на страницах книг и журналов только в роли непримиримой противницы Англии. И уж совсем мало внимания уделяется тому периоду, когда оба государства...
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2011. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86007-635-8. Вниманию читателей предлагается первое в отечественной историографии исследование британского военного присутствия в Горной Шотландии и его роль в умиротворении этой самой беспокойной кельтской окраины Великобритании в XVIII в. В центре внимания ‒ армия как инструмент и участник социально-экономической и...
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2011. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86007-635-8. Вниманию читателей предлагается первое в отечественной историографии исследование британского военного присутствия в Горной Шотландии и его роль в умиротворении этой самой беспокойной кельтской окраины Великобритании в XVIII в. В центре внимания ‒ армия как инструмент и участник социально-экономической и...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 657 с. — (История науки). — ISBN 978-5-4448-0514-5. Это исследование - первая в российской и зарубежной историографии интеллектуальная история решения «Хайлендской проблемы» Великобритании в конце XVII - первой половине XVIII вв. В центре внимания автора - роль колониального знания в умиротворении и «цивилизации» Горной Шотландии....
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 657 с. — (История науки). — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0514-5. Это исследование – первая в российской и зарубежной историографии интеллектуальная история решения «Хайлендской проблемы» Великобритании в конце XVII – первой половине XVIII вв. В центре внимания автора – роль колониального знания в умиротворении и «цивилизации» Горной Шотландии....
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. — 657 с. — (История науки) — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0514-5. Это исследование – первая в российской и зарубежной историографии интеллектуальная история решения «Хайлендской проблемы» Великобритании в конце XVII – первой половине XVIII вв. В центре внимания автора – роль колониального знания в умиротворении и «цивилизации» Горной Шотландии....
The Letters In The Casket. (A transcription of the contempory copies of the letters used against Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland, in the case of the murder of her husband, Lord Henry of Darnley. )
Не так много переведено на русский язык книг, посвящённых истории отдельно Шотландии, а не всей Британии (что значит, в основном историю Англии). Потому из этой книги можно почерпнуть и исторические сведения. Но основная её ценность в легендах о великих шотландцах, которые сложно вычитать в иных изданиях.
Пер. с англ. Т. Бердиковой, М. Тюнькиной. — М.: Наука, 2021. — 429 с., илл. — ISBN 978-5-02-040815-9. Эта книга выдающегося шотландского писателя, написанная им в 1827—1832 гг., — чтение не менее увлекательное, чем его знаменитые исторические романы, уже давно ставшие мировой классикой. Вальтер Скотт создавал свою «Историю Шотландии» для внука, но при этом старался представить...
Пер. Т. Бердиковой, М. Тюнькиной. — Москва: Наука, 2021. — 429 с. — (История для юных и не очень юных). — ISBN 978-5-02-040815-9. Эта книга выдающегося шотландского писателя, написанная им в 1827 - 1832 гг., - чтение не менее увлекательное, чем его знаменитые исторические романы, уже давно ставшие мировой классикой. Вальтер Скотт создавал свою «Историю Шотландии» для внука, но...
М: Б. С. Г.-Пресс, 2005. — 479 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-93381-168-8. «История Шотландии» Вальтера Скотта, написанная им в 1827—1832 гг. — чтение не менее увлекательное, чем его знаменитые исторические романы, которыми все мы зачитывались в детстве. Предназначая свой труд в первую очередь внуку, писатель, по его признанию, надеялся написать так, чтобы «было понятно ребенку и интересно...
М: Б. С. Г.-Пресс, 2005. — 479 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-93381-168-8. «История Шотландии» Вальтера Скотта, написанная им в 1827—1832 гг. — чтение не менее увлекательное, чем его знаменитые исторические романы, которыми все мы зачитывались в детстве. Предназначая свой труд в первую очередь внуку, писатель, по его признанию, надеялся написать так, чтобы «было понятно ребенку и интересно...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. — 416 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-90670-516-7. Книга представляет первое в России исследование о наиболее дискуссионной личности британской истории ‒ короле Якове II Стюарте и движении его сторонников-якобитов. Автором раскрыто основное содержание внутренней политики Якова II, представлен новый взгляд на «Славную революцию» 1688‒1689 гг. Читатель...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. — 416 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-90670-516-7. Книга представляет первое в России исследование о наиболее дискуссионной личности британской истории ‒ короле Якове II Стюарте и движении его сторонников-якобитов. Автором раскрыто основное содержание внутренней политики Якова II, представлен новый взгляд на «Славную революцию» 1688‒1689 гг. Читатель...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. — 416 с. — (Pax Britannica). — ISBN: 978-5-90670-516-7. Книга представляет первое в России исследование о наиболее дискуссионной личности британской истории ‒ короле Якове II Стюарте и движении его сторонников-якобитов. Автором раскрыто основное содержание внутренней политики Якова II, представлен новый взгляд на «Славную революцию» 1688‒1689 гг. Читатель...
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